Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

BACKGROUND Interactions between inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) are central to a wide
spectrum of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. An understanding of these …

Colloidal crystal engineering of complex, low-symmetry architectures is challenging when
isotropic building blocks are assembled. Here we describe an approach to generating such …

Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state of matter 125 years ago, this field has
developed into a scientific area with many facets. This Review presents recent …

Frank–Kasper (FK) and quasicrystal phases were originally identified in metal alloys and
only sporadically reported in soft materials. These unconventional sphere-packing schemes …

Self-assembly of rigid building blocks with explicit shape and symmetry is substantially
influenced by the geometric factors and remains largely unexplored. We report the selective …

We report the discovery of a dodecagonal quasicrystalline state (DDQC) in a sphere
(micelle) forming poly (isoprene-b-lactide)(IL) diblock copolymer melt, investigated as a …

Single molecular species can self-assemble into Frank–Kasper (FK) phases, finite
approximants of dodecagonal quasicrystals, defying intuitive notions that thermodynamic …

Over the past decade, quasicrystalline order has been observed in many soft-matter
systems: in dendritic micelles, in star and tetrablock terpolymer melts and in diblock …

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 …