Light-Controlled Swarming and Assembly of Colloidal Particles

Hybrid mesoporous silica nanocarriers with thermovalve-regulated controlled release

(2017) T. Ribeiro et al.   Nanoscale

Weak synchronization and large-scale collective oscillation in dense bacterial suspensions

(2017) Chong Chen et al.   NATURE

Neutrophil-inspired propulsion in a combined acoustic and magnetic field

(2017) Daniel Ahmed et al.   Nature Communications

Opto-thermophoretic assembly of colloidal matter

(2017) Linhan Lin et al.   Science Advances

Optical Nanoparticle Sorting Elucidates Synthesis of Plasmonic Nanotriangles

(2016) María Ana Huergo et al.   ACS Nano

Light-Directed Reversible Assembly of Plasmonic Nanoparticles Using Plasmon-Enhanced Thermophoresis

(2016) Linhan Lin et al.   ACS Nano

Nanoparticle Clusters: Assembly and Control Over Internal Order, Current Capabilities, and Future Potential

(2016) Jacek K. Stolarczyk et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Tuning the Drug Loading and Release of DNA-Assembled Gold-Nanorod Superstructures

(2016) Vahid Raeesi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Steered Isotropic Semiconductor Micromotors

(2016) Chuanrui Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Triggered Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles for Photothermal Therapy and Photoacoustic Imaging of Tumors In Vivo

(2016) Xiaju Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Directed Self-Assembly Pathways of Active Colloidal Clusters

(2016) Jie Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Optically Evolved Assembly Formation in Laser Trapping of Polystyrene Nanoparticles at Solution Surface

(2016) Shun-Fa Wang et al.   LANGMUIR

Light-controlled propulsion, aggregation and separation of water-fuelled TiO2/Pt Janus submicromotors and their “on-the-fly” photocatalytic activities

(2016) Fangzhi Mou et al.   Nanoscale

Reconfiguring active particles by electrostatic imbalance

(2016) Jing Yan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

From One to Many: Dynamic Assembly and Collective Behavior of Self-Propelled Colloidal Motors

(2015) Wei Wang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Spiropyran-Decorated SiO2–Pt Janus Micromotor: Preparation and Light-Induced Dynamic Self-Assembly and Disassembly

(2015) Qilu Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Silicon-Based Chemical Motors: An Efficient Pump for Triggering and Guiding Fluid Motion Using Visible Light

(2015) Maria J. Esplandiu et al.   ACS Nano

Highly Efficient Light-Driven TiO2–Au Janus Micromotors

(2015) Renfeng Dong et al.   ACS Nano

Laser Trapping of Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles

(2015) Anni Lehmuskero et al.   ACS Nano

A tale of two forces: simultaneous chemical and acoustic propulsion of bimetallic micromotors

(2015) Wei Wang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Advances in Colloidal Assembly: The Design of Structure and Hierarchy in Two and Three Dimensions

(2015) Nicolas Vogel et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Reversible Swarming and Separation of Self-Propelled Chemically Powered Nanomotors under Acoustic Fields

(2015) Tailin Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self-Propelled Nano/Micromotors with a Chemical Reaction: Underlying Physics and Strategies of Motion Control

(2015) Daigo Yamamoto et al.   KONA Powder and Particle Journal

Light-Triggered Reversible Self-Assembly of Gold Nanoparticle Oligomers for Tunable SERS

(2015) Lei Zhang et al.   LANGMUIR

Fast Magnetic Micropropellers with Random Shapes

(2015) Peter J. Vach et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical Epitaxial Growth of Gold Nanoparticle Arrays

(2015) Ningfeng Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Magneto–Acoustic Hybrid Nanomotor

(2015) Jinxing Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ultra-durable rotary micromotors assembled from nanoentities by electric fields

(2015) Jianhe Guo et al.   Nanoscale

Light-controlled self-assembly of non-photoresponsive nanoparticles

(2015) Pintu K. Kundu et al.   Nature Chemistry

Reversible trapping and reaction acceleration within dynamically self-assembling nanoflasks

(2015) Hui Zhao et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Electric-field–induced assembly and propulsion of chiral colloidal clusters

(2015) Fuduo Ma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Single-Component TiO2Tubular Microengines with Motion Controlled by Light-Induced Bubbles

(2015) Fangzhi Mou et al.   Small

Ant groups optimally amplify the effect of transiently informed individuals

(2015) Aviram Gelblum et al.   Nature Communications

Autonomous Motion and Temperature-Controlled Drug Delivery of Mg/Pt-Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Janus Micromotors Driven by Simulated Body Fluid and Blood Plasma

(2014) Fangzhi Mou et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Self-Assembly of Nanorod Motors into Geometrically Regular Multimers and Their Propulsion by Ultrasound

(2014) Suzanne Ahmed et al.   ACS Nano

Reconfigurable Swarms of Nematic Colloids Controlled by Photoactivated Surface Patterns

(2014) Sergi Hernàndez-Navarro et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

CXCR4-Targeted and MMP-Responsive Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

(2014) Juan Gallo et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Triggered Detection and Deposition: Toward the Repair of Microcracks

(2014) Vinita Yadav et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

UV Irradiation Induced Transformation of TiO2 Nanoparticles in Water: Aggregation and Photoreactivity

(2014) Jing Sun et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Multifunctional Tumor pH-Sensitive Self-Assembled Nanoparticles for Bimodal Imaging and Treatment of Resistant Heterogeneous Tumors

(2014) Daishun Ling et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-activated self-propelled colloids

(2014) J. Palacci et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Emergent Cometlike Swarming of Optically Driven Thermally Active Colloids

(2014) Jack A. Cohen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm

(2014) M. Rubenstein et al.   SCIENCE

Spatially and temporally reconfigurable assembly of colloidal crystals

(2014) Youngri Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Bone-Crack Detection, Targeting, and Repair Using Ion Gradients

(2013) Vinita Yadav et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Transition between Collective Behaviors of Micromotors in Response to Different Stimuli

(2013) Wentao Duan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Light-Assisted, Templated Self-Assembly Using a Photonic-Crystal Slab

(2013) Eric Jaquay et al.   NANO LETTERS

Small power: Autonomous nano- and micromotors propelled by self-generated gradients

(2013) Wei Wang et al.   Nano Today

Seawater-driven magnesium based Janus micromotors for environmental remediation

(2013) Wei Gao et al.   Nanoscale

Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

(2013) Antoine Bricard et al.   NATURE

Hydrodynamics of soft active matter

(2013) M. C. Marchetti et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Living Crystals of Light-Activated Colloidal Surfers

(2013) J. Palacci et al.   SCIENCE

Triggered “On/Off” Micropumps and Colloidal Photodiode

(2012) Vinita Yadav et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Facile preparation of magnetic γ-Fe2O3/TiO2 Janus hollow bowls with efficient visible-light photocatalytic activities by asymmetric shrinkage

(2012) Fangzhi Mou et al.   Nanoscale

Collective behaviour of self-propelled catalytic micromotors

(2012) Alexander A. Solovev et al.   Nanoscale

Self-assembly gets new direction

(2012) Matthew R. Jones et al.   NATURE

Group-size distribution of skeins of wild geese

(2012) Yoshinori Hayakawa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Collective Behavior of Thermally Active Colloids

(2012) Ramin Golestanian   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Collective motion

(2012) Tamás Vicsek et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

From behavioural analyses to models of collective motion in fish schools

(2012) U. Lopez et al.   Interface Focus

Design of Multifunctional Micelle for Tumor-Targeted Intracellular Drug Release and Fluorescent Imaging

(2011) Weiwei Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Wolf-pack (Canis lupus) hunting strategies emerge from simple rules in computational simulations

(2011) C. Muro et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Light-Driven Titanium-Dioxide-Based Reversible Microfireworks and Micromotor/Micropump Systems

(2010) Yiying Hong et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Chemically Triggered Swarming of Gold Microparticles

(2010) Daniel Kagan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Colloidal Assembly: The Road from Particles to Colloidal Molecules and Crystals

(2010) Fan Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Nanoparticles functionalised with reversible molecular and supramolecular switches

(2010) Rafal Klajn et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Photoswitchable Catalysis Mediated by Dynamic Aggregation of Nanoparticles

(2010) Yanhu Wei et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ultrasound-controlled cell aggregation in a multi-well chip

(2010) Bruno Vanherberghen et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Active Motion of a Janus Particle by Self-Thermophoresis in a Defocused Laser Beam

(2010) Hong-Ren Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter

(2010) Sriram Ramaswamy   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Schooling Behavior of Light-Powered Autonomous Micromotors in Water

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

Writing Self-Erasing Images using Metastable Nanoparticle “Inks”

(2009) Rafal Klajn et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Self-organized pattern formation in a diverse attractive-repulsive swarm

(2009) D. E. O. Juanico   EPL

Assembly and force measurement with SPM-like probes in holographic optical tweezers

(2009) L Ikin et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Nanoscale Forces and Their Uses in Self-Assembly

(2009) Kyle J. M. Bishop et al.   Small

Self-assembly: from crystals to cells

(2009) Bartosz A. Grzybowski et al.   Soft Matter

Observation of Slip Flow in Thermophoresis

(2008) Franz M. Weinert et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS