Metal–organic frameworks offer a diverse landscape of building blocks to design high
performance materials for implications in almost every major industry. With this diversity …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

Nanoparticle assembly is a complex and versatile method of generating new materials,
capable of using thousands of different combinations of particle size, shape, composition …

Nanoparticle assembly has been proposed as an ideal means to program the hierarchical
organization of a material by using a selection of nanoscale components to build the entire …

Photonic crystals—a class of materials whose optical properties derive from their structure in
addition to their composition—can be created by self-assembling particles whose sizes are …

Plasmonic gap nanostructures (PGNs) have been extensively investigated mainly because
of their strongly enhanced optical responses, which stem from the high intensity of the …

The conception, synthesis, and invention of a nanostructure, now known as the spherical
nucleic acid, or SNA, in 1996 marked the advent of a new field of chemistry. Over the past …

Conspectus Colloidal nanoparticles have unique attributes that can be used to synthesize
materials with exotic properties, but leveraging these properties requires fine control over …

Multicomponent nanoparticle superlattices (SLs) promise the integration of nanoparticles
(NPs) with remarkable electronic, magnetic, and optical properties into a single structure …

Colloidal crystal engineering with DNA has led to significant advances in bottom‐up
materials synthesis and a new way of thinking about fundamental concepts in chemistry …