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 …

[HTML][HTML] Highly oriented hydrogels for tissue regeneration: design strategies, cellular mechanisms, and biomedical applications

J Wu, Z Yun, W Song, T Yu, W Xue, Q Liu, X Sun - Theranostics, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many human tissues exhibit a highly oriented architecture that confers them with distinct
mechanical properties, enabling adaptation to diverse and challenging environments …

Collapse dynamics of chemically active flexible polymer

N Jain, S Thakur - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate the structural and dynamical properties of a chemically active flexible
polymer chain immersed in a solvent bath by using hybrid molecular dynamics (MD) and …

Free-Standing Hierarchically Porous Silica Nanoparticle Superstructures: Bridging the Nano-to Microscale for Tailorable Delivery of Small and Large Therapeutics

S Palvai, D Kpeglo, G Newham… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanoscale colloidal self-assembly is an exciting approach to yield superstructures with
properties distinct from those of individual nanoparticles. However, the bottom-up self …

Diffusiophoretic Brownian dynamics: characterization of hydrodynamic effects for an active chemoattractive polymer

S Jaiswal, M Ripoll, S Thakur - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
The phoretic Brownian dynamics method is shown here to be an effective approach to
simulate the properties of colloidal chemophoretic based systems. The method is then …

Evaporation-Driven Coassembly of Hierarchical, Multicomponent Networks

KC Elbert, T Vo, D Oh, H Bharti, SC Glotzer… - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly is an increasingly popular approach to systematically control the formation of
complex, multicomponent materials with structural features orders of magnitude larger than …

Materials prepared by Freezing-Induced Self-Assembly of Dispersed Solutes: A Review

R Mondal, G Kumaraswamy - Materials Advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystallization demands structural regularity. Therefore, when a solvent is frozen to form a
crystalline solid, it forces the dispersed solute to partition out of the crystalline phase. This …

Does freezing induce self-assembly of polymers? A molecular dynamics study

M Bhendale, A Indra, JK Singh - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This work investigates the freezing-induced self-assembly (FISA) of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)
and PVA-like polymers using molecular dynamics simulations. In particular, the effect of the …

Colloidal Clusters as models for chiral active micromotors

B Biswas, M Kandula - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.15061, 2024 - arxiv.org
Circular swimmers with tunable orbit radius and chirality are gaining attention due to their
potential to illustrate novel collective phases in simulations and synthetic and biological …