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 present work aims at reviewing our current understanding of fractal structures in the
frame of colloid aggregation as well as the possibility they offer to produce novel structured …

Many biological organisms can tune their mechanical properties to adapt to environments in
multistable modes, but the current synthetic materials, with bistable states, have a limited …

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

Monodisperse polyhedral metal–organic framework (MOF) particles up to 5 μm in size, large
enough to enable in situ optical imaging of particle orientation, were synthesized by the …

Microenvironment sensing and imaging are of importance in microscale zones like
microreactors, microfluidic systems, and biological cells. But they are so far implemented …

MXenes represent a novel class of 2D materials with unique properties and have great
potential for diverse applications in sensing and electronics; however, their directed …

An important goal of self-assembly is to achieve a preprogrammed structure with high
fidelity. Here, we control the valence of DNA-functionalized emulsions to make linear and …

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