Advances in colloidal assembly: the design of structure and hierarchy in two and three dimensions

N Vogel, M Retsch, CA Fustin, A Del Campo… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The colloidal domain is characterized by the dimensions of its constituents in the range from
several nanometers to micrometers. Often, these individual entities are organized in …

Current status and future developments in preparation and application of colloidal crystals

H Cong, B Yu, J Tang, Z Li, X Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal crystals (CCs) are ordered arrays of monodisperse colloidal particles. Because of
the presence of a periodic superlattice of colloids and voids, CCs bear many unique …

[HTML][HTML] Pattern detection in colloidal assembly: A mosaic of analysis techniques

V Lotito, T Zambelli - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Characterization of the morphology, identification of patterns and quantification of
order encountered in colloidal assemblies is essential for several reasons. First of all, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Playing with sizes and shapes of colloidal particles via dry etching methods

V Lotito, T Zambelli - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Monolayers of self-assembled quasi-spherical colloidal particles are essential building
blocks in the field of materials science and engineering. More typically, they are used as a …

Superhydrophobic hierarchical arrays fabricated by a scalable colloidal lithography approach

P Kothary, X Dou, Y Fang, Z Gu, SY Leo… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Here we report an unconventional colloidal lithography approach for fabricating a variety of
periodic polymer nanostructures with tunable geometries and hydrophobic properties. Wafer …

Recent advances in fabrication of monolayer colloidal crystals and their inverse replicas

XZ Ye, LM Qi - Science China Chemistry, 2014 - Springer
Monolayer colloidal crystals (MCCs) are two-dimensional (2D) colloidal crystals consisting
of a monolayer of monodisperse colloidal particles arrayed with a 2D periodic order. In …

Recent advances in binary colloidal crystals for photonics and porous material fabrication

Z Zhang, G Yi, P Li, X Zhang, Z Wan… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the past few years, binary colloidal crystals (BCCs) composed of both large and small
particles have attracted considerable attention from the scientific community as an exciting …

Binary colloidal crystal films grown by vertical evaporation of silica nanoparticle suspensions

JL Russell, GH Noel, JM Warren, NLL Tran… - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
Despite intensive research efforts in the synthesis of binary colloidal crystals, the production
of well ordered binary colloidal crystal films over large areas continues to be synthetically …

Fabrication of well-ordered binary colloidal crystals with extended size ratios for broadband reflectance

Z Cai, YJ Liu, X Lu, J Teng - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2014 - ACS Publications
Binary colloidal crystals (BCCs) possess great potentials in tuning material properties by
controlling the size ratio of small to large colloidal spheres (γS/L). In this paper, we present a …

Tuning Hydrophobicity of TiO2 Layers with Silanization and Self-Assembled Nanopatterning

TN Van, YK Lee, J Lee, JY Park - Langmuir, 2013 - ACS Publications
The wettability of TiO2 layers is controlled by forming highly ordered arrays of nanocones
using nanopatterning, based on self-assembly and dry etching. Nanopatterning of TiO2 …