ELECTRIC FIELD COAXES UNIFORM, SPHERICAL PARTICLES INTO CONTROLLED CLUSTERS

摘要

Colloidal molecules, or clusters of small particles assembled into predetermined arrangements, are important building blocks for next-generation functional materials such as photonic crystals or metamaterials-synthetic materials constructed to have properties not found naturally. A new approach developed by Ning Wu and co-workers may now make it easier to create and study colloidal molecules made from simple spherical particles (DOI: 10.1021/ja403172p).