Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the development of unconventional computing
paradigms inspired by the abilities and energy efficiency of the brain. The human brain …

Self-assembly of various building blocks has been considered as a powerful approach to
generate novel materials with tailorable structures and optimal properties. Understanding …

Electric and magnetic fields have enabled both technological applications and fundamental
discoveries in the areas of bottom-up material synthesis, dynamic phase transitions, and …

The collective mobility of active matter (self-propelled objects that transduce energy into
mechanical work to drive their motion, most commonly through fluids) constitutes a new …

Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

Fuel-driven assembly operates under the continuous influx of energy and results in
superstructures that exist out of equilibrium. Such dissipative processes provide a route …

Transient assembled structures play an indispensable role in a wide variety of processes
fundamental to living organisms including cellular transport, cell motility, and proliferation …

Process-directed self-assembly refers to processes that reproducibly trap the kinetics of
structure formation that ensues after a sudden change (“quench”) of the thermodynamic …

Disordered hyperuniform structures are locally random while uniform like crystals at large
length scales. Recently, an exotic hyperuniform fluid state was found in several …

Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-
organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples …