Directed assembly of nanomaterials for making nanoscale devices and structures: Mechanisms and applications

Z Chai, A Childress, AA Busnaina - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanofabrication has been utilized to manufacture one-, two-, and three-dimensional
functional nanostructures for applications such as electronics, sensors, and photonic …

Directed self-assembly of nanoparticles

M Grzelczak, J Vermant, EM Furst, LM Liz-Marzán - ACS nano, 2010 - ACS Publications
Within the field of nanotechnology, nanoparticles are one of the most prominent and
promising candidates for technological applications. Self-assembly of nanoparticles has …

Approaches to self-assembly of colloidal monolayers: A guide for nanotechnologists

V Lotito, T Zambelli - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
Self-assembly of quasi-spherical colloidal particles in two-dimensional (2D) arrangements is
essential for a wide range of applications from optoelectronics to surface engineering, from …

[HTML][HTML] A broad perspective to particle-laden fluid interfaces systems: From chemically homogeneous particles to active colloids

E Guzmán, F Martínez-Pedrero, C Calero… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Particles adsorbed to fluid interfaces are ubiquitous in industry, nature or life. The wide
range of properties arising from the assembly of particles at fluid interface has stimulated an …

1D Colloidal chains: recent progress from formation to emergent properties and applications

X Fan, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

Direct measurements of the colloidal Debye force

HM Lee, YW Kim, EM Go, C Revadekar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Colloids often behave in a manner similar to their counterparts in molecular space and are
used as model systems to understand molecular behavior. Here, we study like-charged …

Nonlinear electrophoresis of colloidal particles

AS Khair - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances over the past decade in nonlinear electrophoresis of charged, dielectric colloidal
particles in aqueous electrolytes are reviewed. Here, the word nonlinear refers to the fact …

Assembly of optical-scale dumbbells into dense photonic crystals

JD Forster, JG Park, M Mittal, H Noh, CF Schreck… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We describe the self-assembly of nonspherical particles into crystals with novel structure
and optical properties combining a partial photonic band gap with birefringence that can be …

Activity waves and freestanding vortices in populations of subcritical Quincke rollers

ZT Liu, Y Shi, Y Zhao, H Chaté… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Virtually all of the many active matter systems studied so far are made of units (biofilaments,
cells, colloidal particles, robots, animals, etc.) that move even when they are alone or …

Advances in electrokinetics and their applications in micro/nano fluidics

C Zhao, C Yang - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2012 - Springer
Electrokinetic phenomena originally developed in colloid chemistry have drawn great
attention in micro-and nano-fluidic lab-on-a-chip systems for manipulation of both liquids …