Hierarchical self-assembly of colloidal magnetic particles into reconfigurable spherical structures

Daniel Morphew, Dwaipayan Chakrabarti

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Abstract

Colloidal self-assembly has enormous potential as a bottom-up means of structure fabrication. Here we demonstrate hierarchical self-assembly of rationally designed charge-stabilised colloidal magnetic particles into ground state structures that are topologically equivalent to a snub cube and a snub dodecahedron, the only two chiral Archimedean solids, for size-selected clusters. These spherical structures open up in response to an external magnetic field and demonstrate controllable porosity. Such features are critical to their applications as functional materials.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8343-8350
Number of pages8
JournalNanoscale
Volume7
Issue number18
Early online date8 Apr 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 May 2015

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