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- Deformable spherical aggregates of metal nanoparticles connect through long-chain dithiol ligands to form macroscopic nanostructured materials that can be shaped and molded.
- These materials can be thermally hardened into metal structures with adjustable porosity and maintain electrical conductivity in both their plastic and hardened forms.
- The self-assembly technique is versatile, suitable for creating materials from pure metals as well as bimetallic compositions.
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Deformable, spherical aggregates of metal nanoparticles connected by long-chain dithiol ligands self-assemble into nanostructured materials of macroscopic dimensions. These materials are plastic and moldable against arbitrarily shaped masters and can be thermally hardened into polycrystalline metal structures of controllable porosity. In addition, in both plastic and hardened states, the assemblies are electrically conductive and exhibit Ohmic characteristics down to approximately 20 volts per meter. The self-assembly method leading to such materials is applicable both to pure metals and to bimetallic structures of various elemental compositions.
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