Self-Healing Colloidal Crystals

摘要

The self-assembly of colloidal building blocks is an important tool in the fabrication of photonic materials and sensors, where refractive index periodicity imparts advantageous optical properties. Well-defined colloidal materials have brought benefits to the field of condensed-matter physics, as the large size and slow dynamics of colloidal particles provide an experimentally convenient model system for molecular interactions.