Issue 7, 2011
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Soft Matter

Multicomponent colloidal crystals that are tunable over large areas†

Gurvinder Singh,a   Saju Pillai,ab   Ayyoob Arpanaeiac  and  Peter Kingshott*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, Building 1521, Aarhus C, Denmark
E-mail: pkingshott@groupwise.swin.edu.au

b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

c Department of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P.O. Box: 14965/161, Tehran, Iran

d Industrial Research Institute Swinburne (IRIS), Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

Abstract

We create colloidal crystal assemblies over large areas containing up to 4 different functionalised polystyrene and silica particles. The method utilises evaporation induced self-assembly from colloidal suspensions confined on a hydrophilic surface. The morphology of the crystals is tuned by the particle size ratio employed during assembly.

Graphical abstract: Multicomponent colloidal crystals that are tunable over large areas

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM01360A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Nov 2010
Accepted
28 Jan 2011
First published
21 Feb 2011

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 3290-3294

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Multicomponent colloidal crystals that are tunable over large areas

G. Singh, S. Pillai, A. Arpanaei and P. Kingshott, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 3290 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM01360A

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