Materials-driven soft wearable bioelectronics for connected healthcare

S Gong, Y Lu, J Yin, A Levin, W Cheng - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
In the era of Internet-of-things, many things can stay connected; however, biological
systems, including those necessary for human health, remain unable to stay connected to …

Molecular engineering of colloidal atoms

Y Cui, J Wang, J Liang, H Qiu - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Creation of architectures with exquisite hierarchies actuates the germination of
revolutionized functions and applications across a wide range of fields. Hierarchical self …

Direct imaging of “Patch-Clas**” and relaxation in robust and flexible nanoparticle assemblies

A Kim, K Akkunuri, C Qian, L Yao, K Sun, Z Chen… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer patching on inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) enables multifunctionality and directed
self-assembly into nonclosely packed optical and mechanical metamaterials. However …

Site-specific chemistry on gold nanorods: curvature-guided surface dewetting and supracolloidal polymerization

H Duan, Z Jia, M Liaqat, MD Mellor, H Tan, MP Nieh… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Control of interparticle interactions in terms of their direction and strength highly relies on the
use of anisotropic ligand grafting on nanoparticle (NP) building blocks. We report a ligand …

Ligand Effects in Assembly of Cubic and Spherical Nanocrystals: Applications to Packing of Perovskite Nanocubes

J Hallstrom, I Cherniukh, X Zha, MV Kovalenko… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We establish the formula representing cubic nanocrystals (NCs) as hard cubes taking into
account the role of the ligands and describe how these results generalize to any other NC …

Point-spread function deformations unlock 3D localization microscopy on spherical nanoparticles

TAPM Huijben, S Mahajan, M Fahim, P Zijlstra… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles (NPs) have proven their applicability in biosensing, drug delivery, and
photothermal therapy, but their performance depends critically on the distribution and …

Heterogeneous binding of polymers on curved nanoparticles

Y Huang, C Tang, Q Tang - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Unraveling protracted polymer binding on curved surfaces of nanoparticles (NPs) is
important for the fabrication of multifunctional nanostructures in cutting-edge research …

Inverse design of triblock Janus spheres for self-assembly of complex structures in the crystallization slot via digital alchemy

LY Rivera-Rivera, TC Moore, SC Glotzer - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The digital alchemy framework is an extended ensemble simulation technique that
incorporates particle attributes as thermodynamic variables, enabling the inverse design of …

Predicting protracted binding kinetics of polymers: Integral of first-passage times

Q Tang, Y Huang, M Müller - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Capturing protracted binding kinetics of polymers onto the surface of nanoobjects is crucial
for the rational design of multifunctional nanostructures, such as patchy nanoparticles and …

Graph–Property Relationships for Complex Chiral Nanodendrimers

V Kuznetsova, A Kadar, A Gaenko, E Er, T Ma… - ACS …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Organic, polymeric, and inorganic nanomaterials with radially diverging dendritic segments
are known for their optical, physical, chemical, and biological properties inaccessible for …