Research

Assembly of anisotropic particles

Tunable assembly of superellipsoids using a non-uniform time varying electric field.

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0.1 MHz

0.35 MHz

0.50 MHz

1.0 MHz

DLVO Anisotropic Colloid−Surface Interactions

Interaction of anisotropic particles with planar substrates.

Modeling of different coloid shapes, such as spheres, ellipsoids, cylinders, polygons, superspheres, elliptical torus, buckled particles, etc.

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Supersphere n=3.2
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Supersphere n=1.6
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Buckled capsules

Bottom-up assembly of magnetic nanoparticles

Magnetic superstructures generated by attracting the magnetic nanoparticles to high field gradient regions

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Array of magnetic microstructures

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Control of magnetic microstructures