Emulsion-confined self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles into 3D superstructures

C Wu, Q Fan, Y Yin - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022 - cell.com
Organizing colloidal particles into 3D superstructures is a promising strategy for fabricating
functional metamaterials with novel optical, electric, and catalytic properties. The rich surface …

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 …

Mechanism of structural colors in binary mixtures of nanoparticle-based supraballs

CM Heil, A Patil, B Vanthournout, S Singla, M Bleuel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Inspired by structural colors in avian species, various synthetic strategies have been
developed to produce noniridescent, saturated colors using nanoparticle assemblies …

Structural Color Production in Melanin‐Based Disordered Colloidal Nanoparticle Assemblies in Spherical Confinement

A Patil, CM Heil, B Vanthournout… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Melanin is a ubiquitous natural pigment that exhibits broadband absorption and high
refractive index. Despite its widespread use in structural color production, how the absorbing …

Computational reverse-engineering analysis for scattering experiments of assembled binary mixture of nanoparticles

CM Heil, A Jayaraman - ACS Materials Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we describe a computational method for analyzing results from scattering
experiments on dilute solutions of supraparticles, where each supraparticle is created by the …

Monte Carlo simulation of particle size separation in evaporating bi-dispersed colloidal droplets on hydrophilic substrates

PA Zolotarev, KS Kolegov - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Colloidal droplets are used in a variety of practical applications. Some of these applications
require particles of different sizes. These include medical diagnostic methods, the creation of …

Synthesis of iron oxide nanocube patched Janus magnetic nanocarriers for cancer therapeutic applications

W Zhang, H Choi, B Yu, DH Kim - Chemical Communications, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Janus magnetic particles, which can be customized for various multifunctionalities, have
promising potential for cancer therapeutic carriers. Herein we synthesized iron oxide …

Modeling Solution Drying by Moving a Liquid-Vapor Interface: Method and Applications

Y Tang, JE McLaughlan, GS Grest, S Cheng - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
A method of simulating the drying process of a soft matter solution with an implicit solvent
model by moving the liquid-vapor interface is applied to various solution films and droplets …

[HTML][HTML] Stratification of polymer mixtures in drying droplets: Hydrodynamics and diffusion

MP Howard, A Nikoubashman - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We study the evaporation-induced stratification of a mixture of short and long polymer chains
in a drying droplet using molecular simulations. We systematically investigate the effects of …