Abstract'Patchy colloids' is a term that has been recently introduced to indicate specially
engineered particles with directional interactions. Based on this concept, a'bottom …

Crystallography may be the gold standard of protein structure determination, but obtaining
the necessary high-quality crystals is also in some ways akin to prospecting for the precious …

Janus colloids with one attractive patch on an otherwise repulsive particle surface serve as
model systems to explore structure formation of particles with chemically heterogeneous …

Coordinating multiple artificial cellular compartments into a well-organized artificial
multicellular system (AMS) is of great interest in bottom-up synthetic biology. However …

The self-assembly of micro/nanoparticles into suprastructures is a promising way to develop
reconfigurable materials and to gain insights into the fundamental question of how matter …

We present a numerical study on the phase diagram for a simple model of Janus colloids,
including ordered and disordered structures. Using a range of techniques, we generate a set …

Static light scattering (SLS) combined with structure-based Monte Carlo (MC) simulations
provide new insights into mechanisms behind anisotropic, attractive protein interactions. A …

Hypothesis The synthesis of compositionally heterogeneous particles is central to the
development of complex colloidal units for self-assembly and self-propulsion. Yet, as the …

The self-assembly of anisotropic patchy particles with a triangular shape was studied by
experiments and computer simulations. The colloidal particles were synthesized in a two …

Nanoparticles with “sticky patches” have long been proposed as building blocks for the self-
assembly of complex structures. The synthetic realizability of such patchy particles, however …