Organic, inorganic or hybrid devices in the liquid state, kept in a fixed volume by surface
tension or by a confining membrane that protects them from a harsh environment, could be …

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 …

Non-equilibrium assemblies, where units are able to harness available energy to perform
tasks, can often self-organize into dynamic materials that uniquely blend structure with …

It is commonly believed that the most efficient way to pack a finite number of equal-sized
spheres is by arranging them tightly in a cluster. However, mathematicians have conjectured …

Topological protection ensures stability of information and particle transport against
perturbations. We explore experimentally and computationally the topologically protected …

Colloidal molecules are designed to mimic their molecular analogues through their
anisotropic shape and interactions. However, current experimental realizations are missing …

Dense particle packing in a confining volume remains a rich, largely unexplored problem,
despite applications in blood clotting, plasmonics, industrial packaging and transport …

Demands for next‐generation soft and responsive materials have sparked recent interest in
the development of shape‐changing particles and particle assemblies. Over the last two …

Lipid membranes, the barrier defining living cells and many of their subcompartments, bind
to a wide variety of nano-and micrometer sized objects. In the presence of strong adhesive …

This contribution describes a synthetic strategy for the fabrication of multicomponent
colloidal “molecules” with controllable complex morphologies and compositionally distinct …