Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Atoms serve as an inspiration for colloidal self-assembly, whereby building blocks can
combine and confer endless functionality using a few design principles, including …

Self-assembly is a powerful approach for constructing colloidal crystals, where spheres, rods
or faceted particles can build up a myriad of structures. Nevertheless, many complex or low …

Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

The burgeoning need to fabricate new functional materials through the assembly of colloidal
building blocks has motivated an intensive research focused on patchy particles. A large …

An important goal of self-assembly is to achieve a preprogrammed structure with high
fidelity. Here, we control the valence of DNA-functionalized emulsions to make linear and …

Recent experimental results using in particular small-angle scattering to characterize the self-
assembly of mainly hard spherical nanoparticles into higher ordered structures ranging from …

In recent years self-assembly has become progressively more “active”, ie the focus of
research gradually has shifted towards field-manipulation of matter in order to form …

Bridging biological complexity and synthetic material design, we investigate dissipative self-
assembly in patchy particle systems. Utilizing Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics …

Inspired by biology and implemented using nanotechnology, the self-assembly of patchy
particles has emerged as a pivotal mechanism for constructing complex structures that …