Mesocrystal

Mésocristal (Fr). Mesocristallo (It). メソ結晶 (Ja).

Mesocrystals are superstructures of well-aligned nanoparticles, which exhibit common outer faces on the mm or μm scale. It is a form of oriented aggregation, where the small crystals have parallel crystallographic alignment but are spatially separated.

References

• Cölfen H. and Antonietti M. (2005). Mesocrystals: Inorganic Superstructures Made by Highly Parallel Crystallization and Controlled Alignment. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 44, 5576-5591.
• Yuwono, V.M., Burrows, N.D., Soltis, J.A. and Penn, R.L. (2010). Oriented Aggregation: Formation and Transformation of Mesocrystal Intermediates Revealed. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132, 2163–2165.