Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics

LL Ma, CY Li, JT Pan, YE Ji, C Jiang, R Zheng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Light-switchable propulsion of active particles with reversible interactions

HR Vutukuri, M Lisicki, E Lauga, J Vermant - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Active systems such as microorganisms and self-propelled particles show a plethora of
collective phenomena, including swarming, clustering, and phase separation. Control over …

Soft matter from liquid crystals

YK Kim, JH Noh, K Nayani, NL Abbott - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystals (LCs) are fluids within which molecules exhibit long-range orientational
order, leading to anisotropic properties such as optical birefringence and curvature elasticity …

Light-regulated soliton dynamics in liquid crystals

KH Wu, LT Zhu, FF ** and characterizing colloidal microplastics
F Mukherjee, A Shi, X Wang, F You, NL Abbott - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying and removing microplastics (MPs) from the environment is a global challenge.
This study explores how the colloidal fraction of MPs assemble into distinct 2D patterns at …

Dynamic photomask directed lithography based on electrically stimulated nematic liquid crystal architectures

M Liu, R Yang, Z Guo, K Chen, H Feng, H Lu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lithography technology is a powerful tool for preparing complex microstructures through
projecting patterns from static templates with permanent features onto samples. To simplify …

Dynamic polymorphic active colloidal assembly and optically guided reconfigurable photonics

J Chen, X Li, Q Liang, B Zeng, J Zheng, C Wu, Y Cao… - Matter, 2024 - cell.com
The macroscopic properties of a material are predominantly governed by the precise
arrangement of the atoms composing its crystal lattice. Recent research shows that photons …

Lock-key microfluidics: simulating nematic colloid advection along wavy-walled channels

K Wamsler, LC Head, TN Shendruk - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystalline media mediate interactions between suspended particles and confining
geometries, which not only has potential to guide patterning and bottom-up colloidal …