Programmable matter: the nanoparticle atom and DNA bond

D Samanta, W Zhou, SB Ebrahimi… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal crystal engineering with DNA has led to significant advances in bottom‐up
materials synthesis and a new way of thinking about fundamental concepts in chemistry …

Advances in colloidal building blocks: toward patchy colloidal clusters

YJ Kim, JB Moon, H Hwang, YS Kim… - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The scalable synthetic route to colloidal atoms has significantly advanced over the past two
decades. Recently, colloidal clusters with DNA‐coated cores called “patchy colloidal …

Colloidal diamond

M He, JP Gales, É Ducrot, Z Gong, GR Yi, S Sacanna… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Self-assembling colloidal particles in the cubic diamond crystal structure could potentially be
used to make materials with a photonic bandgap,–. Such materials are beneficial because …

Three-dimensional visualization of nanoparticle lattices and multimaterial frameworks

A Michelson, B Minevich, H Emamy, X Huang, YS Chu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Advances in nanoscale self-assembly have enabled the formation of complex nanoscale
architectures. However, the development of self-assembly strategies toward bottom-up …

Designer nanomaterials through programmable assembly

JS Kahn, O Gang - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticles have long been recognized for their unique properties, leading to exciting
potential applications across optics, electronics, magnetism, and catalysis. These specific …

Self‐Assembly Pathways of Triblock Janus Particles into 3D Open Lattices

H Eslami, F Müller‐Plathe - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly of triblock Janus particles is simulated from a fluid to 3D open lattices:
pyrochlore, perovskite, and diamond. The coarse‐grained model explicitly takes into …

Programming Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Patchy Particles into Colloidal Crystals via Colloidal Molecules

D Morphew, J Shaw, C Avins, D Chakrabarti - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly is a promising bottom-up route to a wide variety of three-
dimensional structures, from clusters to crystals. Programming hierarchical self-assembly of …

Ordered colloidal clusters constructed by nanocrystals with valence for efficient CO2 photoreduction

J Nai, S Wang, XW Lou - Science Advances, 2019 - science.org
The ability to construct discrete colloidal clusters (CCs) as complex as molecular clusters is
limited due to the lack of available colloidal building blocks and specific directional bonds …

Patchy colloidal clusters with broken symmetry

YJ Kim, JH Kim, IS Jo, DJ Pine… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal clusters are prepared by assembling positively charged cross-linked polystyrene
(PS) particles onto negatively charged liquid cores of swollen polymer particles. PS particles …

Clusters of anisotropic colloidal particles: From colloidal molecules to supracolloidal structures

D Morphew, D Chakrabarti - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Colloidal clusters have received considerable attention in recent years in the context of the
fabrication of “colloidal molecules”, mimicking the symmetry of molecular structures, as well …