Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Self-indicating polymers: a pathway to intelligent materials

M Bayat, H Mardani, H Roghani-Mamaqani… - Chemical Society …, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Self-indicating polymers have emerged as a promising class of smart materials that possess
the unique ability to undergo detectable variations in their physical or chemical properties in …

Advances in application of azobenzene as a trigger in biomedicine: molecular design and spontaneous assembly

HB Cheng, S Zhang, J Qi, XJ Liang… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Azobenzene is a well‐known derivative of stimulus‐responsive molecular switches and has
shown superior performance as a functional material in biomedical applications. The results …

Photochromism into nanosystems: towards lighting up the future nanoworld

L Wang, Q Li - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate the structure and function of promising nanosystems via energy
input and external stimuli is emerging as an attractive paradigm for develo** …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: from intricate structures to functional materials

MA Boles, M Engel, DV Talapin - Chemical reviews, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Nanoparticle assembly as a materials development tool

MS Lee, DW Yee, M Ye… - Journal of the American …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle assembly is a complex and versatile method of generating new materials,
capable of using thousands of different combinations of particle size, shape, composition …

Light-driven self-assembly of spiropyran-functionalized covalent organic framework

G Das, T Prakasam, N Alkhatib, RG AbdulHalim… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Controlling the number of molecular switches and their relative positioning within porous
materials is critical to their functionality and properties. The proximity of many molecular …

Polymer-guided assembly of inorganic nanoparticles

C Yi, Y Yang, B Liu, J He, Z Nie - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their
enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of …

Nanoparticle self-assembly: from design principles to complex matter to functional materials

A Rao, S Roy, V Jain, PP Pillai - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The creation of matter with varying degrees of complexities and desired functions is one of
the ultimate targets of self-assembly. The ability to regulate the complex interactions …

Stimuli-chromism of photoswitches in smart polymers: Recent advances and applications as chemosensors

A Abdollahi, H Roghani-Mamaqani, B Razavi - Progress in Polymer …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Light-responsive polymers, especially photochromic ones, are among the most interesting
classes of stimuli-responsive materials. Photochromic polymers can show different stimuli …