Decoration of microspheres with gold nanodots--giving colloidal spheres valences.

[1]  D. Ryan,et al.  Templated nanoparticle assembly on the surface of a patterned nanosphere , 2003 .

[2]  A. Blaaderen From the de Broglie to Visible Wavelengths: Manipulating Electrons and Photons With Colloids , 1998 .

[3]  D. Choi,et al.  Colloidal lithographic nanopatterning via reactive ion etching. , 2004, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[4]  Younan Xia,et al.  Monodispersed Colloidal Spheres: Old Materials with New Applications , 2000 .

[5]  Helmuth Möhwald,et al.  Template-directed colloidal self-assembly – the route to ‘top-down’ nanochemical engineering , 2004 .

[6]  G. Whitesides,et al.  Asymmetric dimers can be formed by dewetting half-shells of gold deposited on the surfaces of spherical oxide colloids. , 2003, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[7]  Vinothan N Manoharan,et al.  Dense Packing and Symmetry in Small Clusters of Microspheres , 2003, Science.

[8]  George M. Whitesides,et al.  Fabrication and Wetting Properties of Metallic Half-Shells with Submicron Diameters , 2002 .

[9]  D. A. Young,et al.  Crystal Transformation for Hard Spheres , 1969 .

[10]  Michael Giersig,et al.  Shadow Nanosphere Lithography: Simulation and Experiment , 2004 .

[11]  Ursula Ebels,et al.  Large-scale, 2D arrays of magnetic nanoparticles , 2003 .

[12]  Toward a Tetravalent Chemistry of Colloids , 2002, cond-mat/0206552.

[13]  H. Möhwald,et al.  Patterning microsphere surfaces by templating colloidal crystals. , 2005, Nano letters.

[14]  D. Fitzmaurice,et al.  Templated Nanowire Assembly on the Surface of a Patterned Nanosphere , 2003 .

[15]  C. Haynes,et al.  Nanosphere Lithography: A Versatile Nanofabrication Tool for Studies of Size-Dependent Nanoparticle Optics , 2001 .

[16]  Geoffrey A. Ozin,et al.  Opal chips: vectorial growth of colloidal crystal patterns inside silicon wafers , 2000 .

[17]  Christy L. Haynes,et al.  Angle-Resolved Nanosphere Lithography: Manipulation of Nanoparticle Size, Shape, and Interparticle Spacing , 2002 .

[18]  Younan Xia,et al.  Growth of Large Colloidal Crystals with Their (100) Planes Orientated Parallel to the Surfaces of Supporting Substrates , 2002 .

[19]  André C. Arsenault,et al.  Towards the synthetic all-optical computer: science fiction or reality? , 2004 .

[20]  Zhenan Bao,et al.  Toward controllable self-assembly of microstructures: Selective functionalization and fabrication of patterned spheres , 2002 .