We report several types of entropy-driven phase transition behaviors in hard bipyramid
systems using Monte Carlo simulations. Bipyramidal nanoparticle shapes are synthesizable …

Spontaneous self-assembly of hard convex polyhedra is known to form orientationally
disordered crystalline phases, where particle orientations do not follow the same pattern as …

Upon osmotic compression, rotationally symmetric faceted colloidal particles can form
translationally ordered, orientationally disordered rotator mesophases. This study explores …

Entropy compartmentalization provides new self-assembly routes to colloidal host–guest
(HG) structures. Leveraging host particle shape to drive the assembly of HG structures has …

An increasing variety of crystal structures has been observed in soft condensed matter over
the past two decades, surpassing most expectations for the diversity of arrangements …

Extensive prior work has shown that colloidal inorganic nanocrystals coated with organic
ligand shells can behave as artificial atoms and, as such, form superlattices with different …

The shape of colloid particles plays an important role in directing the structure of their
assemblies. Anisotropic colloids can adopt more complex structures than can their spherical …

Assembly in confinement is a problem of great interest in colloidal structure design,
plasmonics, photonics, and industrial packaging. Along with the range of design choices …

The crystalline solids with lack of orientational ordering of anisotropic particles serve the
purpose of studying the disordered systems with many fundamental applications in …

Photonic crystals, appealing for their ability to control light, are constructed from periodic
regions of different dielectric constants. Yet, the structural holy grail in photonic materials …