Within the field of nanotechnology, nanoparticles are one of the most prominent and
promising candidates for technological applications. Self-assembly of nanoparticles has …

Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

Many natural micrometre-scale assemblies can be actuated to control their optical, transport
and mechanical properties, yet such functionality is lacking in colloidal structures …

A method of simultaneous field‐and flow‐directed assembly of anisotropic titania (TiO2)
nanoparticle films from a colloidal suspension is presented. Titania particles are oriented by …

Current theoretical attempts to understand the reversible formation of stable microtubules
and virus shells are generally based on shape-specific building blocks or monomers, where …

Colloidal particles with surface patches can self-assemble with high directionality, but the
resulting assemblies cannot reconfigure unless the patch arrangement (number, symmetry …

Active colloids are a synthetic analogue of biological microorganisms that consume external
energy to swim through viscous fluids. Such motion requires breaking the symmetry of the …

Highly monodisperse polystyrene/poly (N-isopropylmethacrylamide)(PS-PNIPMAM) core–
shell composite microgels were synthesized and further nanoengineered in either …

An anisotropic colloidal shape in combination with an externally tunable interaction potential
results in a plethora of self-assembled structures with potential applications toward the …

DC electric fields are used to produce colloidal assemblies with orientational and layered
positional order from a dilute suspension of spheroidal particles. These 3D assemblies …