Atoms serve as an inspiration for colloidal self-assembly, whereby building blocks can
combine and confer endless functionality using a few design principles, including …

Memory formation in matter is a theme of broad intellectual relevance; it sits at the
interdisciplinary crossroads of physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science. Memory …

In the realm of particle self-assembly, it is possible to reliably construct nearly arbitrary
structures if all the pieces are distinct,–, but systems with fewer flavours of building blocks …

Bottom-up synthetic biology aims to engineer artificial cells capable of responsive behaviors
by using a minimal set of molecular components. An important challenge toward this goal is …

Nanoparticles have long been recognized for their unique properties, leading to exciting
potential applications across optics, electronics, magnetism, and catalysis. These specific …

Colloidal particles with mobile binding molecules constitute a powerful platform for probing
the physics of self-assembly. Binding molecules are free to diffuse and rearrange on the …

Coordinating multiple artificial cellular compartments into a well-organized artificial
multicellular system (AMS) is of great interest in bottom-up synthetic biology. However …

We explore the potential of nanocrystals (a term used equivalently to nanoparticles) as
building blocks for nanomaterials, and the current advances and open challenges for …

DNA-mediated self-assembly of colloids has emerged as a powerful tool to assemble the
materials of prescribed structure and properties. The uniqueness of the approach lies in the …

Just like atoms combine into molecules, colloids can self-organize into predetermined
structures according to a set of design principles. Controlling valence—the number of …