Transmutable Colloidal Crystals and Active Phase Separation via Dynamic, Directed Self-Assembly with Toggled External Fields

ZM Sherman, JW Swan - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
A diverse set of functional materials can be fabricated by assembling dispersions of colloids
and nanoparticles. Two principal engineering challenges prevent efficient production of …

An expanded state diagram for the directed self-assembly of colloidal suspensions in toggled fields

H Kim, M Sau, EM Furst - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
The suspension structure and assembly kinetics of micrometer-diameter paramagnetic
spheres in toggled magnetic fields are investigated at a constant field strength H= 1750A· m …

Magnetorheology of exotic magnetic mesostructures generated under triaxial unsteady magnetic fields

M Terkel, J De Vicente - Smart Materials and Structures, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Traditionally, the rheological properties of magnetorheological (MR) fluids are investigated
under uniaxial steady (DC) fields. These basic fields promote the aggregation of …

Enhanced diffusion and magnetophoresis of paramagnetic colloidal particles in rotating magnetic fields

ZM Sherman, JL Pallone, RM Erb, JW Swan - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Dispersions of paramagnetic colloids can be manipulated with external magnetic fields to
assemble structures via dipolar assembly and control transport via magnetophoresis. For …

Phase separation kinetics of dynamically self-assembling nanoparticles with toggled interactions

ZM Sherman, H Rosenthal, JW Swan - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ordered materials passively self-assembled from dispersions of nanoparticles with steady
interactions are subject to thermodynamic constraints on their phase separation kinetics …

Structural coarsening of magnetic ellipsoid particle suspensions driven in toggled fields

H Kim, JL Bauer, PA Vasquez… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The suspension structure of magnetic ellipsoid nanoparticles is studied as they are driven by
toggled magnetic fields in a microgravity environment. Suspensions coarsen in the applied …

Suppressing the Rayleigh–Plateau Instability in Field-Directed Colloidal Assembly

JL Bauer, MJ Kurian, J Stauffer, EM Furst - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Suspensions of superparamagnetic colloids that equilibrate in a toggled magnetic field
undergo a Rayleigh–Plateau instability with a characteristic wavelength λ= 600 μm for the …

2D capsid formation within an oscillatory energy landscape: orderly self-assembly depends on the interplay between a dynamic potential and intrinsic relaxation times

JK Niblo, JR Swartley, Z Zhang, KH DuBay - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Multiple dissipative self-assembly protocols designed to create novel structures or to reduce
kinetic traps have recently emerged. Specifically, temporal oscillations of particle …

Autoensamblado Coloidal y Reología bajo Campos Magnéticos Pulsantes

G Camacho Villar - 2021 - digibug.ugr.es
En este trabajo se demuestra un incremento del esfuerzo umbral en fluidos magneto-
reológicos tras su autoensamblado mediante campos alternos (AC) pulsados. Estos …

Field induced assembly of paramagnetic colloidal particles

C Reynolds - 2016 - ora.ox.ac.uk
The assembly of paramagnetic colloidal particles in the presence of an external magnetic
field is studied with optical video microscopy. The first half of this thesis concerns chain …