Fluid interface-assisted assembly of soft microgels: recent developments for structures beyond hexagonal packing

D Feller, M Karg - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Microgels adsorb to air/water and oil/water interfaces–a process driven by a significant
reduction in interfacial tension. Depending on the available interface area per microgel …

Defined core–shell particles as the key to complex interfacial self-assembly

J Menath, J Eatson, R Brilmayer… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The two-dimensional self-assembly of colloidal particles serves as a model system for
fundamental studies of structure formation and as a powerful tool to fabricate functional …

Self-assembly of model triblock Janus colloidal particles in two dimensions

K Bahri, H Eslami, F Müller-Plathe - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A simplified two-dimensional effective-solvent model of triblock Janus particles, consisting of
three interaction sites in a linear configuration, a core particle, and two particles modeling …

Compression of colloidal monolayers at liquid interfaces: in situ vs. ex situ investigation

K Kuk, V Abgarjan, L Gregel, Y Zhou, VC Fadanelli… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The assembly of colloidal particles at liquid/liquid or air/liquid interfaces is a versatile
procedure to create microstructured monolayers and study their behavior under …

Interfacial self-assembly of SiO 2–PNIPAM core–shell particles with varied crosslinking density

M Ickler, J Menath, L Holstein, M Rey, DMA Buzza… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Spherical particles confined to liquid interfaces generally self-assemble into hexagonal
patterns. It was theoretically predicted by Jagla two decades ago that such particles …

Soft particles at liquid interfaces: From molecular particle architecture to collective phase behavior

S Ciarella, M Rey, J Harrer, N Holstein, M Ickler… - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
Soft particles such as microgels can undergo significant and anisotropic deformations when
adsorbed to a liquid interface. This, in turn, leads to a complex phase behavior upon …

Anisotropic silicon nanowire arrays fabricated by colloidal lithography

M Rey, FJ Wendisch, ESA Goerlitzer, JSJ Tang… - Nanoscale …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) and colloidal lithography
allows for the affordable, large-scale and high-throughput synthesis of silicon nanowire …

Self-Aassembly of core-corona colloids under cylindrical confinement: A Monte Carlo study

S Jiménez-Millán, C García-Alcántara… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hierarchical self-assembly provides a versatile pathway for generating new functional
materials. In this work, we show that confining core-corona colloids in a cylindrical cavity …

[HTML][HTML] Fingerprints of ordered self-assembled structures in the liquid phase of a hard-core, square-shoulder system

M Wassermair, G Kahl, R Roth… - The Journal of chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the phase ordering (pattern formation) of systems of two-dimensional core–
shell particles using Monte Carlo (MC) computer simulations and classical density functional …

Patterns in 2D core-softened systems: From sphere to dumbbell colloids

TPO Nogueira, JR Bordin - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper we analyze the structural behavior of two species of core-softened colloids:
spherical and dumbbell shaped molecules with distinct separations from almost complete …