Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09787-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Anisometric colloids—which have both nanometer and micrometer dimensions—combine features of their two constituent length scales. Here, using optical microscopy and modeling, the authors find that highly polydisperse anisometric colloids self-assemble into 3D, periodic lattices in a manner hardly inaccessible to nano- or micron-scale colloids.