Bonding assembled colloids without loss of colloidal stability.

Vutukuri, Hanumantha Rao; Stiefelhagen, Johan; Vissers, Teun; Imhof, Arnout; van Blaaderen, Alfons · Adv Mater · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A facile method is demonstrated for bonding assembled colloids without loss of colloidal stability by thermal annealing. Examples include both close-packed and non-close-packed structures. The confocal microscopy image shows a cross-section of a 3D labyrinthine structure after it was made permanent. The 3D network is completely preserved after the annealing step.

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