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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2011 Jan 3;50(1):264–267. doi: 10.1002/anie.201005911

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Temperature Optimization of 2D Array Formation. It is evident that only annealing the tiles in a protocol starting at 53 °C was successful. If the temperature is too high, the tiles that are formed in the first annealing step will be damaged and cannot associate with each other to form 2D arrays. If the temperature is too low, the result is that a great number of crystal nuclei are created and those tiny pieces of arrays randomly aggregate with each other, resulting in the formation of no large 2D crystals.