
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Salgueiriño-Maceira, Verónica 
A1  - Rodríguez-González, Benito 
A1  - Hellweg, Thomas 
A1  - Liz-Marzán, Luis M. 
T1  - Formation of Large Opals via Drying of Wet Colloidal Crystals
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 2003
VL  - 56
IS  - 10
SP  - 1017
EP  - 1020
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH03078 
N2  - The formation of opal structures with large crystalline domains is demonstrated through the formation of colloidal crystals in ethanol of surface-modified colloidal silica spheres containing small CdS nuclei, followed by controlled drying at room temperature. The high quality of the opals was characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and, more importantly, also by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), which allows probing of the entire sample and provides important information on the crystal structure. 
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