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

Three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals (PCs) are crystalline materials where the refractive
index is periodically modulated on a length scale comparable to the light wavelength of …

The vertical deposition technique for creating crystalline microstructures is applied for the
first time to nonspherical colloids in the form of hollow silica cubes. Controlled deposition of …

Monolayers of colloidal spheres are used as masks in nanosphere lithography (NSL) for the
selective deposition of nanostructured layers. Several methods exist for the formation of self …

Unlike crystalline atomic and ionic solids, texture development due to crystallographically
preferred growth in colloidal crystals is less studied. Here we investigate the underlying …

Soluble polymer is frequently added to inorganic particle suspensions to provide
mechanical strength and adhesiveness to particulate coatings. To engineer coating …

Evaporation‐induced self‐assembly of colloidal particles is one of the most versatile
fabrication routes to obtain large‐area colloidal crystals; however, the formation of …

Dense and uniform particle films are deposited using a robust version of the convective
particle assembly process. We analyze how the shape of the gas-liquid interface and the …

We illustrate the importance of particle geometry on droplet contact line pinning,'coffee-
stain'formation and nano-structuring within the resulting rings. We present the fundamentals …

Fluid bridges are ubiquitous soft structures of finite size that conform to and link the surfaces
of neighboring objects. Fluid joints, the specific type of fluid bridge with at least one extremity …