Binary Phases and Crystals Assembled from Active and Passive Colloids

Ion-exchange enabled synthetic swarm

(2021) Changjin Wu et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Ionic Effects in Ionic Diffusiophoresis in Chemically Driven Active Colloids

(2021) Xuemao Zhou et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Ionic solids from common colloids

(2020) Theodore Hueckel et al.   NATURE

Active colloidal molecules assembled via selective and directional bonds

(2020) Zuochen Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Janus Particles: Inverse Solidification Induced by Active Janus Particles (Adv. Funct. Mater. 39/2020)

(2020) Tao Huang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Phoretic self-assembly of active colloidal molecules

(2020) Lijie Lei et al.   Chinese Physics B

Motile Micropump Based on Synthetic Micromotors for Dynamic Micropatterning

(2019) Xiaocong Chang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Particle analogs of electrons in colloidal crystals

(2019) Martin Girard et al.   SCIENCE

Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers

(2019) Sophie Ramananarivo et al.   Nature Communications

Active Micromotor Systems Built from Passive Particles with Biomimetic Predator–Prey Interactions

(2019) Fangzhi Mou et al.   ACS Nano

Colloidal Crystal “Alloys”

(2019) Shunzhi Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Targeted assembly and synchronization of self-spinning microgears

(2018) Antoine Aubret et al.   Nature Physics

Phase separation in binary mixtures of active and passive particles

(2018) Pritha Dolai et al.   Soft Matter

Formation of porous crystals via viscoelastic phase separation

(2017) Hideyo Tsurusawa et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Self-Assembly of Colloidal Molecules due to Self-Generated Flow

(2017) Ran Niu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Orthogonal navigation of multiple visible-light-driven artificial microswimmers

(2017) Jing Zheng et al.   Nature Communications

Block Co-PolyMOCs by Stepwise Self-Assembly

(2016) Yufeng Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Modes of surface premelting in colloidal crystals composed of attractive particles

(2016) Bo Li et al.   NATURE

Reconfiguring active particles by electrostatic imbalance

(2016) Jing Yan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programmable artificial phototactic microswimmer

(2016) Baohu Dai et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Synthetic Strategies Toward DNA-Coated Colloids that Crystallize

(2015) Yufeng Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Microdynamics and arrest of coarsening during spinodal decomposition in thermoreversible colloidal gels

(2015) Yongxiang Gao et al.   Soft Matter

Crystallization of DNA-coated colloids

(2015) Yu Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Self-Assembly of Catalytically Active Colloidal Molecules: Tailoring Activity Through Surface Chemistry

(2014) Rodrigo Soto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Crystallizing hard-sphere glasses by doping with active particles

(2014) Ran Ni et al.   Soft Matter

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

(2013) J. Palacci et al.   SCIENCE

Colloids with valence and specific directional bonding

(2012) Yufeng Wang et al.   NATURE

Crystal-Arrested Phase Separation

(2012) Juan Sabin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nanoparticle Superlattice Engineering with DNA

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Pair interaction potentials of colloids by extrapolation of confocal microscopy measurements of collective suspension structure

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Schooling Behavior of Light-Powered Autonomous Micromotors in Water

(2009) Michael Ibele et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Block Copolymer Based Nanostructures: Materials, Processes, and Applications to Electronics

(2009) Ho-Cheol Kim et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Synthesis of highly-monodisperse spherical titania particles with diameters in the submicron range

(2009) Shunsuke Tanaka et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Colloidal glasses and gels: The interplay of bonding and caging

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