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MIT-led team unveils flexible-connector method for nanoparticle materials

MIT team publishes flexible-connector nanoparticle assembly method

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A paper in Nature Materials by researchers including MIT's Rob Macfarlane and PhD candidate Nicholas Sbalbi, with University of Delaware collaborators, shows that super-flexible connector molecules—rather than the rigid ones long thought necessary—can be used to tune the structure of nanoparticle networks via deliberate deformation and electric charge.

“It's the exact opposite of what the dogma has been for 20 years: that you need to make connector ligands rigid, and any deviation causes assembly to fail. We showed if you just crank it all the way to the opposite extreme, it works just as well.”

Rob Macfarlane

Rob Macfarlane MIT professor of materials science and engineeringNicholas Sbalbi MIT PhD candidateStephen Kronenberger University of Delaware doctoral studentArthi Jayaraman Former University of Delaware professorHana Shinzawa MIT undergraduate

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