This entire self-assembly process is spontaneous. The researchers also discovered that colloidal molecules with various ...

self-assembly has been appealing because it can easily provide a crystal with the appropriate length scale. Submicrometre spheres can be synthesized with great uniformity by colloidal chemistry.

Our scientific interests encompass different branches of soft condensed matter and optical physics, including novel laser trapping and imaging techniques, molecular and colloidal self-assembly, ...

In their experiments, they examined a colloidal system that can be directly ... how surface roughness influences the dynamic assembly of anisotropic particles," added Dr. Ni.