Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Conspectus The confinement of colloidal particles at liquid interfaces offers many
opportunities for materials design. Adsorption is driven by a reduction of the total free energy …

Chiral plasmonics is a fascinating research field that is attractive to scientists from diverse
backgrounds. Physicists study light–matter interactions, chemists seek ways to analyze …

Nanoparticles possess exceptional optical, magnetic, electrical, and chemical properties.
Several applications, ranging from surfaces for optical displays and electronic devices, to …

Collective excitation of periodic arrays of metallic nanoparticles by coupling localized
surface plasmon resonances to grazing diffraction orders leads to surface lattice resonances …

The combination of metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) with colloidal lithography has
emerged as a simple and cost-effective approach to nanostructure silicon. It is especially …

We report the first self-assembled porous monolayer and free-standing multilayer films
composed of metal–organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles. Self-assembled MOF …

The two-dimensional self-assembly of colloidal particles serves as a model system for
fundamental studies of structure formation and as a powerful tool to fabricate functional …

Soft particles display highly versatile properties with respect to hard colloids and even more
so at fluid–fluid interfaces. In particular, microgels, consisting of a cross-linked polymer …

The volume phase transition of microgels is one of the most paradigmatic examples of
stimuli-responsiveness, enabling a collapse from a highly swollen microgel state into a …