Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

An overwhelming diversity of colloidal building blocks with distinct sizes, materials and
tunable interaction potentials are now available for colloidal self-assembly. The application …

The crystallization of microparticles with primarily single-stranded DNA can lead to more
ordered structures, in which the flexibility of the DNA design imparts several advantages …

It was a physicist, Wolfgang Pauli, who recognized a century ago that “God made the bulk;
the surface was invented by the devil.” And indeed, adjusting the surface properties of …

Colloidal crystal engineering of complex, low-symmetry architectures is challenging when
isotropic building blocks are assembled. Here we describe an approach to generating such …

A versatile method for the design of colloidal crystals involves the use of DNA as a particle-
directing ligand. With such systems, DNA-nanoparticle conjugates are considered …

Although the concept of selective delivery has been postulated over 100 years ago, no
targeted nanomedicine has been clinically approved so far. Nanoparticles modified with …

Janus colloids with one attractive patch on an otherwise repulsive particle surface serve as
model systems to explore structure formation of particles with chemically heterogeneous …

Direct design of complex functional materials would revolutionize technologies ranging from
printable organs to novel clean energy devices. However, even incremental steps toward …

Functionalised nanoparticles for biomedical applications represents an incredibly exciting
and rapidly growing field of research. Considering the complexity of the nano–bio interface …