Nanocrystal assemblies: Current advances and open problems

CL Bassani, G Van Anders, U Banin, D Baranov… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We explore the potential of nanocrystals (a term used equivalently to nanoparticles) as
building blocks for nanomaterials, and the current advances and open challenges for …

Self‐healing superhydrophobic surfaces: healing principles and applications

S **ang, W Liu - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Superhydrophobic surfaces have already been applied in anti‐fouling, water‐oil separation,
liquid transportation, etc. Surfaces can be defined as superhydrophobic surfaces once they …

Photochromism from wavelength-selective colloidal phase segregation

J Zheng, J Chen, Y **, Y Wen, Y Mu, C Wu, Y Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Phase segregation is ubiquitously observed in immiscible mixtures, such as oil and water, in
which the mixing entropy is overcome by the segregation enthalpy,–. In monodispersed …

Superhydrophobic surface-assisted preparation of microspheres and supraparticles and their applications

M Pan, H Shao, Y Fan, J Yang, J Liu, Z Deng, Z Liu… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2024 - Springer
Superhydrophobic surface (SHS) has been well developed, as SHS renders the property of
minimizing the water/solid contact interface. Water droplets deposited onto SHS with contact …

Computational reverse-engineering analysis for scattering experiments (CREASE) with machine learning enhancement to determine structure of nanoparticle …

CM Heil, A Patil, A Dhinojwala… - ACS central science, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present a new open-source, machine learning (ML) enhanced computational method for
experimentalists to quickly analyze high-throughput small-angle scattering results from …

Tuning the porosity of supraparticles

W Liu, M Kappl, HJ Butt - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Supraparticles consisting of nano-or microparticles have potential applications as, for
example, photonic crystals, drug carriers, or heterogeneous catalysts. To avoid the use of …

From meso to macro: controlling hierarchical porosity in supraparticle powders

U Sultan, A Götz, C Schlumberger, D Drobek, G Bleyer… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A drying droplet containing colloidal particles can consolidate into a spherical assembly
called a supraparticle. Such supraparticles are inherently porous due to the spaces between …

Soft matter science and the COVID-19 pandemic

WCK Poon, AT Brown, SOL Direito, DJM Hodgson… - Soft matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Much of the science underpinning the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic lies in the
soft matter domain. Coronaviruses are composite particles with a core of nucleic acids …

Mechanics of colloidal supraparticles under compression

J Wang, J Schwenger, A Ströbel, P Feldner, P Herre… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Colloidal supraparticles are finite, spherical assemblies of many primary particles. To take
advantage of their emergent functionalities, such supraparticles must retain their structural …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling supraparticle shape and structure by tuning colloidal interactions

W Liu, M Kappl, W Steffen, HJ Butt - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Assembly of colloids in drying colloidal suspensions on superhydrophobic
surface is influenced by the colloidal interactions, which determine the shape and interior …