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Polymers and jacketed platinum nanoparticles.
Illustration depicts ligand-coated platinum nanoparticles (blue and gray balls) nestled amongst the block co-polymers (blue and green strands). The self-assembly of platinum nanoparticles through the use of ligands and polymers is the key first step to a new method for structuring metals developed by Cornell Researchers.
Credit: Courtesy of Scott Warren & Uli Wiesner, Cornell University
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