An overwhelming diversity of colloidal building blocks with distinct sizes, materials and
tunable interaction potentials are now available for colloidal self-assembly. The application …

Atoms serve as an inspiration for colloidal self-assembly, whereby building blocks can
combine and confer endless functionality using a few design principles, including …

Self-assembling colloidal particles in the cubic diamond crystal structure could potentially be
used to make materials with a photonic bandgap,–. Such materials are beneficial because …

This review describes the latest advances in the synthesis and assembly of specific colloids
such as the colloidal molecules as defined by van Blaaderen in 2003 and the patchy …

From rock salt to nanoparticle superlattices, complex structure can emerge from simple
building blocks that attract each other through Coulombic forces,,–. On the micrometre scale …

Colloidal self-assembly is a promising bottom-up route to a wide variety of three-
dimensional structures, from clusters to crystals. Programming hierarchical self-assembly of …

Future optical materials promise to do for photonics what semiconductors did for electronics,
but the challenge has long been in creating the structure they require—a regular, three …

Conspectus Colloidal self-assembly is a bottom-up technique to fabricate functional
nanomaterials, with paramount interest stemming from programmable assembly of smaller …

Colloidal clusters are prepared by assembling positively charged cross-linked polystyrene
(PS) particles onto negatively charged liquid cores of swollen polymer particles. PS particles …

Introducing the concept of programmability paves the way for designing complex and
intelligent materials, where the materials' structural information is pre-encoded in the …