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ArticleNature communications2019

Hierarchical self-assembly of 3D lattices from polydisperse anisometric colloids.

Binbin Luo, Ahyoung Kim, John W Smith, Zihao Ou, Zixuan Wu, Juyeong Kim, Qian Chen

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  3. Hierarchical self-assembly of polydisperse colloidal bananas into a two-dimensional vortex phase.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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Binbin LuoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Ahyoung KimDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
John W SmithDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Zihao OuDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2987-7423
Zixuan WuDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Juyeong KimDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4353-5131
Qian ChenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. qchen20@illinois.edu.

Funding

National Science Foundation 1752517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colloids are mainly divided into two types defined by size. Micron-scale colloids are widely used as model systems to study phase transitions, while nanoparticles have physicochemical properties unique to their size. Here we study a promising yet underexplored third type: anisometric colloids, which integrate micrometer and nanometer dimensions into the same particle. We show that our prototypical system of anisometric silver plates with a high polydispersity assemble, unexpectedly, into an ordered, three-dimensional lattice. Real-time imaging and interaction modeling elucidate the crucial role of anisometry, which directs hierarchical assembly into secondary building blocks-columns-which are sufficiently monodisperse for further ordering. Ionic strength and plate tip morphology control the shape of the columns, and therefore the final lattice structures (hexagonal versus honeycomb). Our joint experiment-modeling study demonstrates potentials of encoding unconventional assembly in anisometric colloids, which can likely introduce properties and phase behaviors inaccessible to micron- or nanometer-scale colloids.

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