This paper reviews 'entropic patchiness' of colloidal particles. On the one hand this may be
due to their intrinsic tendency to form certain shape-dependent configurations in crowded …

Gravity can affect colloidal suspensions since for micrometer-sized particles gravitational
and thermal energies can be comparable over vertical length scales of a few millimeters. In …

Liquid crystal (LC) phases are in between solids and liquids with properties of both. Nematic
LCs composed of rod-like molecules or particles exhibit long-range orientational order …

The synthesis of anisotropic colloidal building blocks is essential for their self‐assembly into
hierarchical materials. Here, a highly efficient stabilizer‐assisted liquid‐crystallization‐driven …

The report shows the strong impact of fullerene C60 nanoparticles on phase transitions and
complex dynamics of rod-like liquid crystal dodecylcyanobiphenyl (12CB), within the limit of …

Spatially ordered systems confined to surfaces such as spheres exhibit interesting
topological structures because of curvature induced frustration in orientational and …

Self-assembly of anisotropic nanomaterials into fluids is a key step in producing bulk, solid
materials with controlled architecture and properties. In particular, the ordering of anisotropic …

The bulk synthesis of fluorescent colloidal SU‐8 polymer rods with tunable dimensions is
described. The colloidal SU‐8 rods are prepared by shearing an emulsion of SU‐8 polymer …

We have investigated the effect of electrostatic interactions in mixtures of soft ellipsoids and
spheres based on the well-known Gay-Berne (GB) and Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential …

Robust control over the position, orientation and self-assembly of nonspherical colloids
facilitate the creation of new materials with complex architecture that are important from …