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 addition of small amounts of a secondary fluid to a suspension can, through the
attractive capillary force, lead to particle bridging and network formation. The capillary …

Clusters in systems as diverse as metal atoms, virus proteins, noble gases, and nucleons
have properties that depend sensitively on the number of constituent particles. Certain …

Inspired by mussel-adhesion phenomena in nature, we present a simple, mild and green
method to prepare polystyrene/Ag (PS/Ag) nanocomposite particles with enhanced …

Colloidal assemblies have applications as photonic crystals and templates for functional
porous materials. While there has been significant progress in controlling colloidal …

The structure of finite self-assembling systems depends sensitively on the number of
constituent building blocks. Recently, it was demonstrated that hard sphere-like colloidal …

Getting control over the valency of colloids is not trivial and has been a long-desired goal for
the colloidal domain. Typically, tuning the preferred number of neighbors for colloidal …

Cross-linked polymer colloids (poly (methyl methacrylate) and polystyrene) with diverse
shapes were prepared in polar solvents (ethanol, methanol and water) via dispersion …

In this paper, a microfluidic approach has been used for the synthesis of ellipsoidal,
dumbbell, rodlike, and necklacelike polymer nanoparticles. High yields of special types of …

Confocal microscopy in combination with real-space particle tracking has proven to be a
powerful tool in scientific fields such as soft matter physics, materials science and cell …