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Early-Stage Bifurcation of Crystallization in a Sphere
Chrameh Fru Mbah, Junwei Wang, Silvan Englisch +5
Bifurcations in kinetic pathways decide the evolution of a system. An example is crystallization, in which the thermodynamically stable polymorph may not form due to kinetic hindra…
Molecular-Induced Chirality Transfer to Plasmonic Lattice Modes
Eric S. A. Goerlitzer, Mario Zapata-Herrera, Ekaterina Ponomareva +5
Molecular chirality plays fundamental roles in biology. The chiral response of a molecule occurs at a specific spectral position, determined by its molecular structure. This finger…
Steering self-organisation through confinement
Nuno A. M. Araújo, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Thomas Barois +26
Self-organisation is the spontaneous emergence of spatio-temporal structures and patterns from the interaction of smaller individual units. Examples are found across many scales in…
Free Energy Landscape of Colloidal Clusters in Spherical Confinement
Junwei Wang, Chrameh Fru Mbah, Thomas Przybilla +4
The structure of finite self-assembling systems depends sensitively on the number of constituent building blocks. Recently, it was demonstrated that hard sphere-like colloidal part…
Interface-induced hysteretic volume phase transition of microgels: simulation and experiment
Jannis Kolker, Johannes Harrer, Simone Ciarella +5
Thermo-responsive microgel particles can exhibit a drastic volume shrinkage upon increasing the solvent temperature. Recently we found that the spreading of poly(N-isopropylacrylam…
Soft particles at liquid interfaces: From molecular particle architecture to collective phase behavior
Simone Ciarella, Marcel Rey, Johannes Harrer +5
Soft particles such as microgels and core-shell particles can undergo significant and anisotropic deformations when adsorbed to a liquid interface. This, in turn, leads to a comple…
Dewetted Au nanoparticles on TiO surfaces -- Evidence of a size-independent plasmonic photo-electrochemical response
Markus Licklederer, Nhat Truong Nguyen, Reza Mohammadi +6
Flat TiO layers are deposited by magnetron sputtering on Ti/Si wafers. The TiO surfaces are then sputter-coated with thin Au films of a nominal thickness of 0.5-10 nm that…
Pattern formation in two-dimensional hard-core/soft-shell systems with variable soft shell profiles
Walter R. C. Somerville, Adam D. Law, Marcel Rey +3
Hard-core/soft shell (HCSS) particles have been shown to self-assemble into a remarkably rich variety of structures under compression due to the simple interplay between the hard-c…
Stimuli-responsive behavior of PNiPAm microgels under interfacial confinement
Johannes Harrer, Marcel Rey, Simone Ciarella +3
The volume phase transition of microgels is one of the most paradigmatic examples of stimuli-responsiveness, enabling a collapse from a highly swollen microgel state into a densely…
Longitudinal Eigenvibration of Multilayer Colloidal Crystals and the Effect of Nanoscale Contact Bridges
Maroun Abi Ghanem, Amey Khanolkar, Samuel P. Wallen +5
Longitudinal contact-based vibrations of colloidal crystals with a controlled layer thickness are studied. These crystals consist of 390 nm diameter polystyrene spheres arranged in…
A Self-Assembled Metamaterial for Lamb Waves
Amey Khanolkar, Samuel Wallen, Maroun Abi Ghanem +3
We report the design and characterization of a self-assembled, locally resonant acoustic metamaterial for Lamb waves, composed of a monolayer of m polystyrene microsphere…
Hierarchical structural control of visual properties in self-assembled photonic-plasmonic pigments
Natalie Koay, Ian B. Burgess, Theresa M. Kay +10
We present a simple one-pot co-assembly method for the synthesis of hierarchically structured pigment particles consisting of silica inverse-opal bricks that are doped with plasmon…