Miniature Gold Arrows Interlock to Build Elaborate Supercrystals (5 of 7) (VIDEO)

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Locking and unlocking process of two GNAs with a concave geometry. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 27, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Q. Wang at Peking University in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, "Controlled growth and shape-directed self-assembly of gold nanoarrows."

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Wang <i>et al.</i>, Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1701183

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