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View article: Structurally Colored Sustainable Sea Silk from <i>Atrina pectinata</i>
Structurally Colored Sustainable Sea Silk from <i>Atrina pectinata</i> Open
The harvesting of sea silk, a luxurious golden textile traditionally obtained from the endangered mollusk Pinna nobilis, faces severe limitations due to conservation efforts, driving the search for sustainable alternatives. Atrina pectinat…
View article: Hopping and crawling DNA-coated colloids
Hopping and crawling DNA-coated colloids Open
Understanding the motion of particles with multivalent ligand-receptors is important for biomedical applications and material design. Yet, even among a single design, the prototypical DNA-coated colloids, seemingly similar micrometric part…
View article: DNA-Coated Microspheres with Base Mismatches for Stepwise Programmed Assembly
DNA-Coated Microspheres with Base Mismatches for Stepwise Programmed Assembly Open
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View article: Hopping and crawling DNA-coated colloids
Hopping and crawling DNA-coated colloids Open
Understanding the motion of particles with ligand-receptors is important for biomedical applications and material design. Yet, even among a single design, the prototypical DNA-coated colloids, seemingly similar micrometric particles hop or…
View article: Soft matter roadmap<sup>*</sup>
Soft matter roadmap<sup>*</sup> Open
Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples are colloids, polymers, amphiphiles, liquid crystals, foams…
View article: A unified state diagram for the yielding transition of soft colloids
A unified state diagram for the yielding transition of soft colloids Open
Data for the manuscript "A unified state diagram for the yielding transition of soft colloids" to appear in Nature Physics
View article: A unified state diagram for the yielding transition of soft colloids
A unified state diagram for the yielding transition of soft colloids Open
Concentrated colloidal suspensions and emulsions are amorphous soft solids, widespread in technological and industrial applications and studied as model systems in physics and material sciences. They are easily fluidized by applying a mech…
View article: Ultrasonic chaining of emulsion droplets
Ultrasonic chaining of emulsion droplets Open
Emulsion droplets trapped in an ultrasonic levitator behave in two ways that\nsolid spheres do not: (1) Individual droplets spin rapidly about an axis\nparallel to the trapping plane, and (2) coaxially spinning droplets form long\nchains a…
View article: Effect of photon counting shot noise on total internal reflection microscopy
Effect of photon counting shot noise on total internal reflection microscopy Open
Total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM) measures changes in the distance between a colloidal particle and a transparent substrate by measuring the scattering intensity of the particle illuminated by an evanescent wave.
View article: Effect of Photon Counting Shot Noise on TIRM
Effect of Photon Counting Shot Noise on TIRM Open
Total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM) measures changes in the distance between a colloidal particle and a transparent substrate by measuring the intensity of light scattered by the particle when it is illuminated by the evanescent fi…
View article: Effect of Photon Counting Shot Noise on Total Internal Reflection Microscopy
Effect of Photon Counting Shot Noise on Total Internal Reflection Microscopy Open
Total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM) measures changes in the distance between a colloidal particle and a transparent substrate by measuring the intensity of light scattered by the particle when it is illuminated by the evanescent fi…
View article: Ultrasonic chaining of emulsion droplets
Ultrasonic chaining of emulsion droplets Open
Emulsion droplets trapped in an ultrasonic levitator behave in two ways that solid spheres do not: (1) Individual droplets spin rapidly about an axis parallel to the trapping plane, and (2) coaxially spinning droplets form long chains alig…
View article: Two‐Dimensional (2D) or Quasi‐2D Superstructures from DNA‐Coated Colloidal Particles
Two‐Dimensional (2D) or Quasi‐2D Superstructures from DNA‐Coated Colloidal Particles Open
This contribution describes the synthesis of colloidal di‐patch particles functionalized with DNA on the patches and their assembly into colloidal superstructures via cooperative depletion and DNA‐mediated interactions. The assembly into f…
View article: Two‐Dimensional (2D) or Quasi‐2D Superstructures from DNA‐Coated Colloidal Particles
Two‐Dimensional (2D) or Quasi‐2D Superstructures from DNA‐Coated Colloidal Particles Open
This contribution describes the synthesis of colloidal di‐patch particles functionalized with DNA on the patches and their assembly into colloidal superstructures via cooperative depletion and DNA‐mediated interactions. The assembly into f…
View article: Hyperuniform Structures Formed by Shearing Colloidal Suspensions
Hyperuniform Structures Formed by Shearing Colloidal Suspensions Open
In periodically sheared suspensions there is a dynamical phase transition, characterized by a critical strain amplitude γ_{c}, between an absorbing state where particle trajectories are reversible and an active state where trajectories are…
View article: Photo-printing of faceted DNA patchy particles
Photo-printing of faceted DNA patchy particles Open
Significance Powerful new approaches to assemble colloidal particles have emerged over the past decade, including the introduction of shape complementarity and heterogeneous patchy colloid surfaces. While proteins use both approaches simul…
View article: Hyperuniform structures formed by shearing colloidal suspensions
Hyperuniform structures formed by shearing colloidal suspensions Open
In periodically sheared suspensions there is a dynamical phase transition characterized by a critical strain amplitude $γ_c$ between an absorbing state where particle trajectories are reversible and an active state where trajectories are c…
View article: Tunable_Assembly_of_Hybrid_Colloids-NatureMat-2020
Tunable_Assembly_of_Hybrid_Colloids-NatureMat-2020 Open
source data in supporting of the manuscript of "Tunable Assembly of Hybrid Colloids Induced by Regioselective Depletion".
View article: Kinetics of actin networks formation measured by time resolved particle-tracking microrheology
Kinetics of actin networks formation measured by time resolved particle-tracking microrheology Open
ATP-assisted actin network self assemblyin vitrois acompanied by an overshoot of the viscoelastic moduli followed by a relaxation to steady-state values.
View article: Assembly of clathrates from tetrahedral patchy colloids with narrow patches
Assembly of clathrates from tetrahedral patchy colloids with narrow patches Open
Here, we revisit the assembly of colloidal tetrahedral patchy particles. Previous studies have shown that the crystallization of diamond from the fluid phase depends more critically on patch width than on the interaction range: particles w…
View article: Pyrochlore lattice, self-assembly and photonic band gap optimizations
Pyrochlore lattice, self-assembly and photonic band gap optimizations Open
Non-spherical colloidal building blocks introduce new design principles for self-assembly, making it possible to realize optical structures that could not be assembled previously. With this added complexity, the phase space expands enormou…
View article: Correction: Compressible colloidal clusters from Pickering emulsions and their DNA functionalization
Correction: Compressible colloidal clusters from Pickering emulsions and their DNA functionalization Open
Correction for ‘Compressible colloidal clusters from Pickering emulsions and their DNA functionalization’ by In-Seong Jo et al., Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 8328–8331.
View article: Shape‐Shifting Patchy Particles
Shape‐Shifting Patchy Particles Open
A facile method to synthesize shape‐shifting patchy particles on the colloidal scale is described. The design is based on the solvent‐induced shifting of the patch shape between concave and convex features. The initial concave patchy parti…
View article: Binding kinetics of lock and key colloids
Binding kinetics of lock and key colloids Open
Using confocal microscopy and first passage time analysis, we measure and predict the rates of formation and breakage of polymer-depletion-induced bonds between lock-and-key colloidal particles and find that an indirect route to bond forma…