Self-assembly of colloidal particles into three-dimensionally ordered arrays and its applications

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Gates ◽  
Sang H. Park ◽  
Younan Xia
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Ordered Arrays

Self-Assembly of Meso- and Nanoparticles into 3d Ordered Arrays and its Applications

1999 ◽  
Vol 576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Gates ◽  
Younan Xia
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Periodic Structures ◽  
Practical Method ◽  
Porous Structures ◽  
Inverse Opals ◽  
Ordered Arrays ◽  
Self Assembling ◽  
Silica Colloids ◽  
Ordered Porous

ABSTRACTThis presentation describes a simple and practical method for self-assembling meso- and nanoparticles into three-dimensionally ordered lattices (opals) over large areas, and the use of these lattices as templates in fabricating highly ordered porous structures such as inverse opals. This method has been applied to a variety of colloidal particles, including silica colloids and polymer beads with diameters in the range of˜50 nm to ˜50 μm. Templating against the 3D opaline lattices provides an effective route to inorganic-organic composite materials and inverse opals having 3D periodic structures.

Fabrication and Characterization of 2D and 3D Ordered Arrays of Nanoparticles

1999 ◽  
Vol 571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Gates ◽  
Ziyi Zhong ◽  
Younan Xia
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Microcontact Printing ◽  
Silicon Substrates ◽  
Ordered Arrays ◽  
Nano Scale ◽  
Fabrication And Characterization ◽  
2D And 3D

ABSTRACTTwo methods are presented which have been successfully used to fabricate highly ordered 2D and 3D arrays of nano-scale particles. The first method uses a combination of microcontact printing (μCP) and surface-templated reactions to form 2D patterned arrays of nanoparticles on silicon substrates. The second method uses confined self-assembly to crystallize colloidal particles into 3D cubic-close-packed (ccp) arrays (or opaline structures).

scholarly journals Self-Assembly of Shape-Tunable Oblate Colloidal Particles into Orientationally Ordered Crystals, Glassy Crystals and Plastic Crystals

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Lu ◽  
Xiangyu Bu ◽  
Xinghua Zhang ◽  
Bing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
The Self ◽  
Plastic Crystals ◽  
Self Assembled ◽  
Glassy Crystals ◽  
The Relationship

The shapes of colloidal particles are crucial to the self-assembled superstructures. Understanding the relationship between the shapes of building blocks and the resulting crystal structures is an important fundamental question....

Chiral Molecular Cavities of Calix[4]Crown on Au(111)

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 5702-5707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ge-Bo Pan ◽  
Jun Luo ◽  
Qi-Yu Zheng ◽  
Li-Jun Wan
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Chiral Recognition ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Racemic Mixture ◽  
Tunneling Microscopy ◽  
Geometrical Structures ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Ordered Structures ◽  
Ordered Arrays ◽  
Stm Images

Well-ordered arrays of chiral molecular cavities have been constructed by self-assembly of inherently chiral calix[4]crown on Au(111) in 0.1 M HClO4 solution and investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The chiral features are clearly observed in high resolution STM images. It is found that the adsorption of the two enantiomers results in the same ordered structures with upright orientation on Au(111). Moreover, only phase separation has been observed for the racemic mixture of the two enantiomers in the experiment. This is mainly due to the weak molecule-substrate interaction as well as asymmetric geometrical structures of the two enantiomers. The present study provides a simple method for construction of ordered arrays of chiral molecular cavities, which are of potential in chemical sensors, chiral recognition, and nonlinear optics.

scholarly journals Nanostructural self-assembly of iridescent feather barbules through depletion attraction of melanosomes during keratinization

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (69) ◽  
pp. 734-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Maia ◽  
Regina H. F. Macedo ◽  
Matthew D. Shawkey
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Metabolic Cost ◽  
Condition Dependence ◽  
Developmental Pathway ◽  
Ordered Arrays ◽  
Cellular Control ◽  
Ornamental Traits ◽  
Nanostructural Organization

Avian plumage colours are model traits in understanding the evolution of sexually selected ornamental traits. Paradoxically, iridescent structural colours, probably the most dazzling of these traits, remain the most poorly understood. Though some data suggest that expression of bright iridescent plumage colours produced by highly ordered arrays of melanosomes and keratin is condition-dependent, almost nothing is known of their ontogeny and thus of any developmental mechanisms that may be susceptible to perturbation. Here, we use light and electron microscopy to compare the ontogeny of iridescent male and non-iridescent female feathers in blue-black grassquits. Feather barbules of males contain a single layer of melanosomes bounded by a thin layer of keratin-producing blue iridescent colour, while those of females contain disorganized melanosomes and no outer layer. We found that nanostructural organization of male barbules occurs late in development, following death of the barbule cell, and is thus unlikely to be under direct cellular control, contrary to previous suggestions. Rather, organization appears to be caused by entropically driven self-assembly through depletion attraction forces that pin melanosomes to the edge of barbule cells and to one another. These forces are probably stronger in developing barbules of males than of females because their melanosomes are (i) larger, (ii) more densely packed, and (iii) more homogeneously distributed owing to the more consistent shape of barbules during keratinization. These data provide the first proposed developmental pathway for iridescent plumage colours, and suggest that any condition dependence of iridescent barbules is likely driven by factors other than direct metabolic cost.

Size-Dependent Separation of Colloidal Particles In Two-Dimensional Convective Self-Assembly

Langmuir ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2975-2978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariko Yamaki ◽  
Junichi Higo ◽  
Kuniaki Nagayama
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Size Dependent

scholarly journals Aggregation kinetics of irreversible patches coupled with reversible isotropic interaction leading to chains, bundles and globules

2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
pp. 1085-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isha Malhotra ◽  
Sujin B. Babu
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
Patch Size ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Colloidal System ◽  
Angle Distribution ◽  
Volume Fractions ◽  
Low Volume ◽  
A Chain

Abstract In the present study we are performing simulation of simple model of two patch colloidal particles undergoing irreversible diffusion limited cluster aggregation using patchy Brownian cluster dynamics. In addition to the irreversible aggregation of patches, the spheres are coupled with isotropic reversible aggregation through the Kern–Frenkel potential. Due to the presence of anisotropic and isotropic potential we have also defined three different kinds of clusters formed due to anisotropic potential and isotropic potential only as well as both the potentials together. We have investigated the effect of patch size on self-assembly under different solvent qualities for various volume fractions. We will show that at low volume fractions during aggregation process, we end up in a chain conformation for smaller patch size while in a globular conformation for bigger patch size. We also observed a chain to bundle transformation depending on the attractive interaction strength between the chains or in other words depending on the quality of the solvent. We will also show that bundling process is very similar to nucleation and growth phenomena observed in colloidal system with short range attraction. We have also studied the bond angle distribution for this system, where for small patches only two angles are more probable indicating chain formation, while for bundling at very low volume fraction a tail is developed in the distribution. While for the case of higher patch angle this distribution is broad compared to the case of low patch angles showing we have a more globular conformation. We are also proposing a model for the formation of bundles which are similar to amyloid fibers using two patch colloidal particles.

scholarly journals Feedback control for defect-free alignment of colloidal particles

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 2099-2110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Gao ◽  
Richard Lakerveld
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Control ◽  
Microfluidic Device ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Colloidal Particles ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Feedback Control Method

A novel feedback control method to align colloidal particles reliably via directed self-assembly in a microfluidic device is presented.

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