Synthesis of Nanoparticle Assemblies: general discussion

Abstract: CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 112, NO. 8, 25 APRIL 2017 1635 Sanat K. Kumar and Oleg Gang are in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Guruswamy Kumaraswamy is in the Polymer Science and Engineering Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory; and Bhagavatula L. V. Prasad is in the Physical/Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, India; Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya is in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India; Steve Granick is in the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea; Oleg Gang is also with the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York, NY11973-5000, USA; Vinothan N. Manoharan is in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Daan Frenkel is in the Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK; Nicholas Kotov is in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. *For correspondence. (e-mail: sk2794@columbia.edu; g.kumaraswamy@ncl.res.in; pl.bhagavatula@ncl.res.in) Nanoparticle assembly: a perspective and some unanswered questions

Abstract: CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 112, NO. 8, 25 APRIL 2017 1635 Sanat K. Kumar and Oleg Gang are in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Guruswamy Kumaraswamy is in the Polymer Science and Engineering Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory; and Bhagavatula L. V. Prasad is in the Physical/Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, India; Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya is in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India; Steve Granick is in the IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea; Oleg Gang is also with the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York, NY11973-5000, USA; Vinothan N. Manoharan is in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Daan Frenkel is in the Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, UK; Nicholas Kotov is in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. *For correspondence. (e-mail: sk2794@columbia.edu; g.kumaraswamy@ncl.res.in; pl.bhagavatula@ncl.res.in) Nanoparticle assembly: a perspective and some unanswered questions