Nanomotors in nature have inspired scientists to design synthetic molecular motors to drive
the motion of microscale objects by cooperative action. Light-driven molecular motors have …

Colloids self-assemble into various organized superstructures determined by particle
interactions. There is tremendous progress in both the scientific understanding and the …

Biological motors are marvels of nature that inspire creation of their synthetic counterparts
with comparable nanoscale dimensions, high efficiency and diverse functions. Molecular …

The reconfigurable self-assembly of colloidal particles allows the bottom-up creation of
adaptive materials, yet significant challenges remain. Here, we demonstrate a synthesis of …

Different phoretic driving mechanisms have been proposed for the transport of solid or liquid
microscopic inclusions in integrated chemical processes. It is now shown that a substrate …

Liquid crystals (LCs) and colloids have large response functions, a property that Nobel
laureate Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1) identified as the most significant unifying concept of soft …

We report the controlled interfacial assembly and reconfiguration of rectangular prism
colloidal particles between microstructures of varying positional and orientational order …

Exotic structures with interesting physical and chemical properties can be achieved by self-
organizing engineered building blocks. The central aim for self-assembly is to precisely …

We demonstrate several examples of driving and steering of colloids when dispersed in
nematic liquid crystals. The driving mechanism is based on the principle of nonlinear …

Self-assembly of colloidal particles due to elastic interactions in nematic liquid crystals
promises tunable composite materials and can be guided by exploiting surface …