A Versatile Bottom‐up Assembly Approach to Colloidal Spheres from Nanocrystals

Abstract

Well-rounded: Water-dispersed colloidal spheres that are self-assembled from nanocrystals with different size, shape, composition, and surface ligand were prepared through a versatile emulsion-based self-assembly (EBS) approach. Through this emulsification process, a dispersion of BaCrO4 nanocrystals in cyclohexane (see picture, left) can be transformed into a dispersion of colloidal spheres of BaCrO4 (see picture, right).