It is now 100 years since Lennard-Jones published his first paper introducing the now
famous potential that bears his name. It is therefore timely to reflect on the many …

The colloidal domain is characterized by the dimensions of its constituents in the range from
several nanometers to micrometers. Often, these individual entities are organized in …

In the realm of particle self-assembly, it is possible to reliably construct nearly arbitrary
structures if all the pieces are distinct,–, but systems with fewer flavours of building blocks …

BACKGROUND Colloids consist of solid or liquid particles, each about a few hundred
nanometers in size, dispersed in a fluid and kept suspended by thermal fluctuations …

The ability to design and assemble three-dimensional structures from colloidal particles is
limited by the absence of specific directional bonds. As a result, complex or low-coordination …

Assembling metal-organic framework (MOF)-based particles is an emerging approach for
creating colloidal superstructures and hierarchical functional materials. However, realization …

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 …

Colloidal dispersions exhibit rich equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamic properties,
self-assemble into diverse structures at different length scales, and display transport …

Icosahedral symmetry, which is not compatible with truly long-range order, can be found in
many systems, such as liquids, glasses, atomic clusters, quasicrystals and virus …

Solutions of different polymers in the same solvent are incompatible as a rule and show
phase separation when they are mixed. H incompatibility is also to be observed in systems …