A new material concept of soft crystals is proposed. Soft crystals respond to gentle stimuli
such as vapor exposure and rubbing but maintain their structural order and exhibit …

Colloidal crystals formed by size-asymmetric binary particles coassemble into a wide variety
of colloidal compounds with lattices akin to ionic crystals. Recently, a transition from a …

Atmospheric gases trapped in icy environments, such as Earth's polar regions and Jupiter's
moon Europa, offer a unique opportunity to explore paleoclimate and astrogeological …

Depletion interaction plays an important role in determining the structural and dynamical
properties of binary colloidal mixtures. We have investigated the effect of the attractive …

Dopant atoms captured by vacancies are known to obstruct vacancy-mediated atomic
diffusion. Yet, there are cases where the opposite behavior has been reported. Here, Na …

The addition of a small amount of dopant impurities to crystals is a common method to tune
the properties of materials. Usually the doping grade is restricted by the low solubility of the …

Binary mixtures of hard spheres can spontaneously self-assemble into binary crystals.
Computer simulations have been especially useful in mapping out the phase behaviour of …

We examine the organization and dynamics of binary colloidal monolayers composed of
micron-scale silica particles interspersed with smaller-diameter silica particles that serve as …

Charged colloidal particles—on both the nano and micron scales—have been instrumental
in enhancing our understanding of both atomic and colloidal crystals. These systems can be …

The properties of crystals consisting of several components can be widely tuned. Often solid
solutions are produced, where substitutional or interstitional disorder determines the crystal …