Sequence-encoded colloidal origami and microbot assemblies from patchy magnetic cubes

Sequential self-folding of polymer sheets

(2017) Ying Liu et al.   Science Advances

Flocking ferromagnetic colloids

(2017) Andreas Kaiser et al.   Science Advances

Actuating Soft Matter with Magnetic Torque

(2016) Randall M. Erb et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Capillary Bridging as a Tool for Assembling Discrete Clusters of Patchy Particles

(2016) Bhuvnesh Bharti et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Shape changing thin films powered by DNA hybridization

(2016) Tae Soup Shim et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Design of Responsive and Active (Soft) Materials Using Liquid Crystals

(2016) Emre Bukusoglu et al.   Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Assembly of Reconfigurable Colloidal Structures by Multidirectional Field-Induced Interactions

(2015) Bhuvnesh Bharti et al.   LANGMUIR

Programmable self-assembly

(2015) Ludovico Cademartiri et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Nanocapillarity-mediated magnetic assembly of nanoparticles into ultraflexible filaments and reconfigurable networks

(2015) Bhuvnesh Bharti et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Shape-Morphing Nanocomposite Origami

(2014) Christine M. Andres et al.   LANGMUIR

Self-Folding Single Cell Grippers

(2014) Kate Malachowski et al.   NANO LETTERS

Synthetic micro/nanomotors in drug delivery

(2014) Wei Gao et al.   Nanoscale

Actuation of shape-memory colloidal fibres of Janus ellipsoids

(2014) Aayush A. Shah et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A gradient field defeats the inherent repulsion between magnetic nanorods

(2014) Y. Gu et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Tunable Assembly of Colloidal Crystal Alloys Using Magnetic Nanoparticle Fluids

(2013) Ye Yang et al.   ACS Nano

Colloidal assembly directed by virtual magnetic moulds

(2013) Ahmet F. Demirörs et al.   NATURE

Field-directed assembly of patchy anisotropic microparticles with defined shape

(2013) C. Wyatt Shields IV et al.   Soft Matter

Behaviour of iron oxide (Fe3O4) Janus particles in overlapping external AC electric and static magnetic fields

(2013) Aleksey Ruditskiy et al.   Soft Matter

Colloidal ribbons and rings from Janus magnetic rods

(2013) Jing Yan et al.   Nature Communications

Magnetic Click Colloidal Assembly

(2012) Stefano Sacanna et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Responsive Photonic Crystals

(2011) Jianping Ge et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Managing magnetic force applied to a magnetic device by a rotating dipole field

(2011) Arthur W. Mahoney et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Magnetic manipulation of self-assembled colloidal asters

(2011) Alexey Snezhko et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Programming magnetic anisotropy in polymeric microactuators

(2011) Jiyun Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Multigait soft robot

(2011) R. F. Shepherd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Directed Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles

(2010) Marek Grzelczak et al.   ACS Nano

Microrobots for Minimally Invasive Medicine

(2010) Bradley J. Nelson et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material

(2010) E. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bioinspired Assembly of Colloidal Nanoplatelets by Electric Field

(2009) Tzung-Hua Lin et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Voyage of the microrobots

(2009) Metin Sitti   NATURE

Properties and emerging applications of self-assembled structures made from inorganic nanoparticles

(2009) Zhihong Nie et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Reconfigurable responsive structures assembled from magnetic Janus particles

(2009) Stoyan K. Smoukov et al.   Soft Matter