Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Evaporation of a drop, though a simple everyday observation, provides a fascinating subject
for study. Various issues interact here, such as dynamics of the contact line, evaporation …

The ability to pattern ceramic materials in three dimensions (3D) is critical for structural,
functional, and biomedical applications. One facile approach is direct ink writing (DIW), in …

Fabrication of diamond structures by self-assembly is a fundamental challenge in making
three-dimensional photonic crystals. We simulate a system of model hard particles with …

A simple method for the fabrication of silica nanoparticle film based on the covalent-bonding
interaction between carboxylic acid-functionalized silica nanoparticles (SiO2–COOH) and …

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PHOTONIC CRYSTALS Page 3 Page 4 Qihuang Gong | **aoyong Hu PHOTONIC …

We investigate evaporative lithography as a route for patterning colloidal films. Films are
dried beneath a mask that induces periodic variations between regions of free and hindered …

Convective deposition of a monolayer of microspheres by drawing a meniscus of a
suspension across a substrate is used to fabricate microlens arrays to enhance the photon …

Tunable interparticle interactions in colloidal suspensions are of great interest because of
their fundamental and practical significance. In this paper we present a new experimental …

Perfectly ordered states are targets in diverse molecular to microscale systems involving, for
example, atomic clusters, protein folding, protein crystallization, nanoparticle superlattices …