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Capturing the dance of nanoparticles in crystals

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Phonon dynamics of self-assembled two-dimensional nanoparticle crystals is resolved by liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy.

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Fig. 1: Gold nanoscale cubic particles are self-assembled into colloidal Maxwell lattices.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Eric Shen & Oleg Gang

  2. Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Eric Shen & Oleg Gang

  3. Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA

    Oleg Gang

  4. Center for Nanomedicine, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Oleg Gang

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