Solvent mediated assembly of nanoparticles confined in mesoporous alumina

Kyle J. Alvine,1,* Diego Pontoni,1 Oleg G. Shpyrko,1,2 Peter S. Pershan,1,3 David J. Cookson,4 Kyusoon Shin,5,† Thomas P. Russell,5 Markus Brunnbauer,6 Francesco Stellacci,6 and Oleg Gang7 1Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 3Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 4Australian Synchrotron Research Program, Building 434, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 5Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA 6Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 7Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, New York 11973, USA Received 20 December 2005; revised manuscript received 24 January 2006; published 17 March 2006