Atoms serve as an inspiration for colloidal self-assembly, whereby building blocks can
combine and confer endless functionality using a few design principles, including …

The curvature of elongated microscopic building blocks plays a crucial role on their self-
assembly into orientationally ordered phases. While rod-like molecules form a handful of …

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major cause of antibiotic-tolerant
infections in humans. P. aeruginosa evades antibiotics in bacterial biofilms by up-regulating …

Synthesis of nanoparticles and particulate nanomaterials with tailored properties is a central
step toward many applications ranging from energy conversion and imaging/display to …

Understanding the impact of curvature on the self-assembly of elongated microscopic
building blocks, such as molecules and proteins, is key to engineering functional materials …

Confined samples of liquid crystals are characterized by a variety of topological defects and
can be exposed to external constraints such as extreme confinements with nontrivial …

The synthesis of anisotropic colloidal building blocks is essential for their self‐assembly into
hierarchical materials. Here, a highly efficient stabilizer‐assisted liquid‐crystallization‐driven …

Micro particles come in a wide variety of architectural designs and shapes. It is time to look
beyond the conventional spherical morphology and focus on anisotropic systems. Rod …

Suspensions of hard ellipsoidal particles exhibit complex phase behavior as shown by
theoretical predictions and simulations of phase diagrams. Here, we report quantitative …

Understanding and manipulating the interactions between foreign bodies and cell
membranes during endo-and phagocytosis is of paramount importance, not only for the fate …