Prof. PENG Chenhui's team from the School of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), realized the collective transfer and reconfigurable self-assembly of colloidal particles by ...

A recent article in Small describes a modular platform for assembling protein-DNA composites using covalent, site-specific conjugation. This method enables the formation of stable structures with ...

Video summary of dynamic and programmable self-assembly of micro-rafts at the air-water interface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 24, 2017, issue of Science Advances, ...

A team of physicists has created a new way to self-assemble particles -- an advance that offers new promise for building complex and innovative materials at the microscopic level. A team of physicists ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has drawn inspiration from a wide variety of natural geometric motifs – including those of 12-sided dice and potato ...

Plastic deformation of crystalline materials with isotropic particle attractions proceeds by the creation and migration of dislocations under the influence of external forces. If dislocations are ...

Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the ...