Journal
SMALL
Volume 14, Issue 35, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201801083
Keywords
anisotropic nanostructures; assembly; colloidal particles; morphology
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [DMR-0956081, CHE-1308587]
- U.S. Army Research Laboratory [W911NF-10-1-0484]
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [55904-ND10]
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The ability to programmatically assemble colloidal micro/nanostructures into highly ordered superstructures is of great importance in both fundamental studies and practical applications. In addition to the sophisticated manipulation of the short-range and long-range interactions imposed on the colloidal building blocks, the intrinsic shape elements including face, edge, corner, concave, convex, and curvature also play very important roles in solving the jigsaw puzzle of the superstructures. Here, the recent progress in the development of colloidal assembly strategies for the formation of complex superstructures is reviewed, with a primary focus on the unique effects of the morphology of the building blocks to the assembly processes and the final structures. Overall, this Review aims to shed light on the fundamental understanding of the colloidal behaviors of complex micro/nanostructures and promote the continued development of effective strategies for the creation of functional materials with complex compositions and morphologies.
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