The site‐specific engineering of colloidal surfaces has provided a powerful approach to
pushing the boundaries of today's materials research. The resulting surface‐anisotropic and …

Nanoparticle assembly offers a versatile tool for constructing new structural materials with
emergent or collective properties beyond individual nanoparticles. The achievement of …

In this Perspective, we present a unique approach to the design and synthesis of giant
molecules based on “nanoatoms” for engineering structures across multiple length scales …

Self-organization of nanoparticles is an efficient strategy for producing nanostructures with
complex, hierarchical architectures. The past decade has witnessed great progress in …

This topical review discusses the theoretical progress made in the field of polymer
nanocomposites, ie, hybrid materials created by mixing (typically inorganic) nanoparticles …

The color of colloidal dispersions of gold particles in a fluid, typically water, varies from red to
blue, depending upon the shape and size of particles. The color and optical properties of …

We describe a promising and flexible technique for fabricating uniform nonspherical
particles with anisotropic phase and surface properties. Our approach is based on the …

“Janus” particles with two hemispheres of different polarizability or charge demonstrate a
multitude of interesting effects in external electric fields. We reported earlier how particles …

In this work, an extension is proposed to the standard iterative Boltzmann inversion (IBI)
method used to derive coarse-grained potentials. It is shown that the inclusion of target data …

The engineering of structures across different length scales is central to the design of novel
materials with controlled macroscopic properties. Herein, we introduce a unique class of self …