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MIT team shows flexible ligands can direct nanoparticle assembly

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For about 20 years, the rule for building ordered materials from nanoparticles was to make the connector molecules rigid. Flexible links were expected to produce disorder. A team at MIT has now assembled nanoparticles by doing the opposite.

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