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Light-Activated Self-thermophoretic Janus Nanopropellers
Henri Truong, Chiara Moretti, Lionel Buisson +2
Achieving controlled and directed motion of artificial nanoscale systems in three-dimensional fluid environments remains a key-challenge in active matter, primarily due to the prev…
From Lyotropic to Thermotropic Behavior: Solvent-Free Liquid Crystalline Phases in Polymer-Surfactant-Conjugated Rod-shaped Colloidal Viruses
Lohitha R. Hegde, Kamendra P. Sharma, Eric Grelet
Filamentous bacteriophages fd are viral particles, highly monodisperse in size, that have been widely used as a model colloidal system for studying the self-assembly of rod-shaped…
Janus Polymeric Giant Vesicles on Demand: A Predictive Phase Separation Approach for Efficient Formation
Eloise Equy, Emmanuel Ibarboure, Eric Grelet +1
Janus particles, with their intrinsic asymmetry, are attracting major interest in various applications, including emulsion stabilization, micro/nanomotors, imaging, and drug delive…
Unveiling Crystalline Order from Glassy Behavior of Charged Rods at Very Low Salt Concentrations
Hanna Anop, Laura Dal Compare, Frederic Nallet +2
Charged colloids can form ordered structures like Wigner crystals or glasses at very low concentrations due to long-range electrostatic repulsions. Here, we combine small-angle x-r…
Self-diffusion in isotropic and liquid crystalline phases of fd virus colloidal rods: a combined single particle tracking and differential dynamic microscopy study
Eric Grelet, Vincent A. Martinez, Jochen Arlt
In this article, we investigate the dynamics of self-organised suspensions formed by rod-like fd virus colloids. Two methods have been employed for analysing fluorescence microscop…
Elucidating chirality transfer in liquid crystals of viruses
Eric Grelet, Maxime Tortora
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature across all length scales, with major implications spanning the fields of biology, chemistry and physics to materials science. How chirality propag…