Rare events are processes that occur upon the emergence of unlikely fluctuations. Unlike
what their name suggests, rare events are fairly ubiquitous in nature, as the occurrence of …

During recent decades innovative nanomaterials have been extensively studied, aiming at
both investigating the structure-property relationship and discovering new properties, in …

Functional soft materials, comprising colloidal and molecular building blocks that self-
organize into complex structures as a result of their tunable interactions, enable a wide array …

We report a simple correlation between microstructure and strain-dependent elasticity in
colloidal gels by visualizing the evolution of cluster structure in high strain-rate flows. We …

As computers get faster, researchers—not hardware or algorithms—become the bottleneck
in scientific discovery. Computational study of colloidal self‐assembly is one area that is …

Burgeoning interest in supracolloidal assembly has reached the point at which the field can
seek so-called intelligent design rather than solely rely on evolution. Emphasizing Janus …

The surprising recent discoveries of quasicrystals and their approximants in soft-matter
systems poses the intriguing possibility that these structures can be realized in a broad …

Advancements in the synthesis of faceted nanoparticles and colloids have spurred interest
in the phase behavior of polyhedral shapes. Regular tetrahedra have attracted particular …

Reconfigurability of two-dimensional colloidal crystal structures assembled by anisometric
particles capable of changing their shape were studied by molecular dynamics computer …

Bottom-up self-assembly offers a means to synthesize materials with desirable structural and
functional properties that cannot easily be fabricated by other techniques. An improved …