Advanced Materials, Vol.24, No.3, 412-412, 2012
Bonding Assembled Colloids without Loss of Colloidal Stability
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.
Keywords:self-assembly;3D assembled structures;non-close-packed structures;bonding colloids;electric fields