Frontiers in Self-Assembly of Colloids
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 319
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The manufacturing of nanoscale and microscale technologies improved considerably with the self-assembly of colloids. The development of nanotechnology and microtechnology is challenged by the difficulty of manufacturing at this scale and the self-assembly of colloids presents a solution to this problem. This solution is supported by the great flexibility to modify the morphology and size of the clusters by varying the potentials that allow the self-assembly of Janus and patchy particles, permitting to have the appropriate structures by only modifying the anisotropic properties of the colloids. Manufacturing of individual particles with anisotropic properties is viable regarding performance and standardization due to a reduction in time and costs of manufacturing the test or final structures in comparison to traditional manufacturing restricted to specific shapes for each application. Manufacturing of individual particles with anisotropic properties makes microtechnology and nanotechnology more accessible to researchers in various fields, accelerating innovation. This Special Issue showcases research papers and review articles focused on novel methodological developments in the self-assembly of colloids and its use for various engineering and biomedical applications.
Dr. Ubaldo M. Córdova-Figueroa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Self-assembly
- Colloids
- Aggregation Patchy particles
- Nucleation
- Surface Potential
- Attractive Forces
