Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

The importance of organic ligands in protecting inorganic nanoparticles and thus imparting
the needed stabilization as colloidal dispersions was realised many years ago. Currently …

Atomically defined assemblies of dye molecules (such as H and J aggregates) have been of
interest for more than 80 years because of the emergence of collective phenomena in their …

Nanoparticle assembly is a complex and versatile method of generating new materials,
capable of using thousands of different combinations of particle size, shape, composition …

The success of the colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) field is rooted in the precise
synthetic control of QD size, shape, and composition, enabling electronically well-defined …

Self‐assembly of nanocrystals into superlattices is a fascinating process that not only
changes geometric morphology, but also creates unique properties that considerably enrich …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) holds great promise in the multiscale
engineering of solid-state materials, whereby atomically engineered NC building blocks are …

Nanocrystal (NC) self-assembly is a versatile platform for materials engineering at the
mesoscale. The NC shape anisotropy leads to structures not observed with spherical NCs …

Nanocrystal superlattices (NC SLs) have long been sought as promising metamaterials, with
nanoscale-engineered properties arising from collective and synergistic effects among the …

Achieving ordered arrays of nanoparticles (NPs) with controlled packing symmetry and
interparticle spacing is of great importance to design complex metamaterials. Herein, we …