Abstract
Self-assembly of one-dimensional structures is attracting a great deal of interest because assembled structures can provide better properties compared to individual building blocks. In the present work, silica microrod self-assembly has been demonstrated by exploiting Pickering emulsion based strategy. Micron-sized silica rods were synthesized employing previously reported methods based on polyvinylpyrrolidone/pentanol emulsion droplets. Rods self-assembled to make structures in the range of ≈10-40 μm. Smooth rods assembled better than segmented rods. The assembled structures were bonded by weak van der Waals forces.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 26734-26737 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | RSC Advances |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 32 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2016 |
Funding
J. Sharma is a Staff Scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. This work is supported by DOE''s Building Technology office award# 1027-1605 to J. S. A portion of this research was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.