Organization of Matter on Different Size Scales: Monodisperse Nanocrystals and Their Superstructures

Advanced colloidal syntheses enable the preparation of monodisperse semiconductors and magnetic alloy nanocrystals. They can be further used as building blocks for the fabrication of ordered assemblies: two-dimensional and three-dimensional arrays and colloidal supercrystals. This article reviews our recent activities in these fields. A theoretical description of the evolution of an ensemble of nanoparticles in a colloidal solution is applied to the problem of control over the nanocrystal monodispersity.