Organically linked iron oxide nanoparticle supercrystals with exceptional isotropic mechanical properties
- 1 February 2016
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Materials
- Vol. 15 (5), 522-528
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4553
Abstract
Crystals of spherical iron oxide nanoparticles linked by oleic acid ligands show exceptional bending modulus, hardness and strength.Keywords
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