Taxis orientation is common in microorganisms, and it provides feasible strategies to
operate active colloids as small‐scale robots. Collective taxes involve numerous units that …

Laser direct writing is a widely employed technique for 3D, contactless, and fast
functionalization of dielectrics. Its success mainly originates from the utilization of ultrashort …

The past two decades have seen a remarkable progress in the development of synthetic
colloidal agents which are capable of creating directed motion in an unbiased environment …

Nanoparticle (NP) assemblies are among the foremost achievements of nanoscience and
nanotechnology because their interparticle interactions overcome the weaknesses …

Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …

Propulsive effects of light, which often remain unnoticed in our daily-life experience, manifest
themselves on spatial scales ranging from subatomic to astronomical. Light-mediated forces …

Thanks to a constant energy input, active matter can self-assemble into phases with complex
architectures and functionalities such as living clusters that dynamically form, reshape, and …

Swarm control is one of the primary challenges in microrobotics. For the automated control
of such a microrobotic system with small size and large population, conventional methods …

Light carries energy and momentum. It can therefore alter the motion of objects on the
atomic to astronomical scales. Being widely available, readily controllable, and broadly …

The use of photons to directly or indirectly drive chemical reactions has revolutionized the
field of nanomaterial synthesis resulting in appearance of new sustainable laser chemistry …