Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, ie, crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class
of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and …

The emergence of high-mobility, colloidal semiconductor quantum dot (QD) solids has
triggered fundamental studies that map the evolution from carrier hop** through localized …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

Anisotropic nanoparticles are ideal building blocks for a variety of functional materials due to
their unique and anisotropic optical, electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties …

Crystal phase, an intrinsic characteristic of crystalline materials, is one of the key parameters
to determine their physicochemical properties. Recently, great progress has been made in …

The self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles has made it possible to bridge the nanoscopic
and macroscopic worlds and to make complex nanostructures. The nanoparticle-mediated …

The ability of nanoscopic materials to self-organize into large-scale assembly structures that
exhibit unique collective properties has opened up new and exciting opportunities in the …

Artificial solids and thin films assembled from colloidal nanomaterials give rise to versatile
properties that can be exploited in a range of technologies. In particular, solution‐based …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals into complex superstructures offers notable
opportunities to create functional devices and artificial materials with unusual properties …