Capillarity-induced ordering of spherical colloids on an interface with anisotropic curvature

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9220-9224

  Ershov, Dmitry ^a   Sprakel, Joris ^a   Appel, Jeroen ^a   Stuart, Martien A Cohen ^a   Van Der Gucht, Jasper ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colloidal interactions; Pickering; Self assembly; Young Laplace equation

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLOID; EXPERIMENT; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COLLOIDAL INTERACTIONS; PICKERING; SELF-ASSEMBLY; YOUNG-LAPLACE EQUATION;

ANISOTROPY; CAPILLARY ACTION; COLLOIDS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 84878713524     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222196110     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Li F, Josephson DP, Stein A (2011) Colloidal assembly: The road from particles to colloidal molecules and crystals. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 50(2):360-388.
2. Vanmaekelbergh D (2011) Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals as route to novel classes of nanostructured materials. Nano Today 6(4):419-437.
3. Zhang J, Li Y, Zhang X, Yang B (2010) Colloidal self-assembly meets nanofabrication: From two-dimensional colloidal crystals to nanostructure arrays. Adv Mater (Deerfield Beach Fla) 22(38):4249-4269.
4. Wang Y, et al. (2012) Colloids with valence and specific directional bonding. Nature 491(7422):51-55.
5. Mao X, Chen Q, Granick S (2013) Entropy favours open colloidal lattices. Nat Mater 12(3):217-222.
6. Chen Q, Bae SC, Granick S (2011) Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice. Nature 469(7330):381-384.
7. Glotzer SC, Solomon MJ (2007) Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures. Nat Mater 6(8):557-562.
8. Sacanna S, Pine DJ (2011) Shape-anisotropic colloids: Building blocks for complex assemblies. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 16:96-105.
9. Grzelczak M, Vermant J, Furst EM, Liz-Marzán LM (2010) Directed self-assembly of nanoparticles. ACS Nano 4(7):3591-3605.
10. Poulin P, Stark H, Lubensky TC, Weitz DA (1997) Novel colloidal interactions in anisotropic fluids. Science 275(5307):1770-1773.
11. Dinsmore AD, et al. (2002) Colloidosomes: Selectively permeable capsules composed of colloidal particles. Science 298(5595):1006-1009.
12. Binder WH (2005) Supramolecular assembly of nanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces. Angew Chem Int Ed 44(33):5172-5175.
13. Chen W, Tan SS, Ng TK, Ford WT, Tong P (2005) Long-ranged attraction between charged polystyrene spheres at aqueous interfaces. Phys Rev Lett 95(21):218301-1-218301-4.
14. Duan HW, Wang DY, Kurth DG, Möhwald H (2004) Directing self-assembly of nanoparticles at water/oil interfaces. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 43(42):5639-5642.
15. Glaser N, Adams DJ, Böker A, Krausch G (2006) Janus particles at liquid-liquid interfaces. Langmuir 22(12):5227-5229.
16. Pieranski P (1980) Two-dimensional interfacial colloidal crystals. Phys Rev Lett 45: 569-572.
17. Kralchevsky PA, Danov KD (2010) Interactions between particles at a fluid interface. Nanoscience: Colloidal and Interfacial Aspects, ed Starov VM (CRC, Boca Raton, FL).
18. Vella D, Mahadevan L (2005) The "Cheerios effect." Am J Phys 73(9):817-825.
19. Loudet JC, Alsayed AM, Zhang J, Yodh AG (2005) Capillary interactions between anisotropic colloidal particles. Phys Rev Lett 94(1):018301.
20. Botto L, Lewandowski EP, Cavallaro M, Stebe KJ (2012) Capillary interactions between anisotropic particles. Soft Matter 8:9957-9971.
21. Madivala B, Fransaer J, Vermant J (2009) Self-assembly and rheology of ellipsoidal particles at interfaces. Langmuir 25(5):2718-2728.
22. Cavallaro M, Jr., Botto L, Lewandowski EP, Wang M, Stebe KJ (2011) Curvature-driven capillary migration and assembly of rod-like particles. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108(52): 20923-20928.
23. Stamou D, Duschl C, Johannsmann D (2000) Long-range attraction between colloidal spheres at the air-water interface: The consequence of an irregular meniscus. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 62(4 Pt B):5263-5272.
24. Würger A (2006) Curvature-induced capillary interaction of spherical particles at a liquid interface. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 74(4 Pt 1):041402.
25. Zeng C, Brau F, Davidovitch B, Dinsmore AD (2012) Capillary interactions among spherical particles at curved liquid interfaces. Soft Matter 8(33):8582-8594.
26. Bowden N, Terfort A, Carbeck J, Whitesides GM (1997) Self-assembly of mesoscale objects into ordered two-dimensional arrays. Science 276(5310):233-235.
27. Nikolaides MG, et al. (2002) Electric-field-induced capillary attraction between likecharged particles at liquid interfaces. Nature 420(6913):299-301.
28. Megens M, Aizenberg J (2003) Capillary attraction: Like-charged particles at liquid interfaces. Nature 424(6952):1014-1014.
29. Iglic A, Kralj-Iglic V (2003) Effect of anisotropic properties of membrane constituents on stable shapes of membrane bilayer structure. Planar Lipid Bilayers (BLMs) and Their Applications, eds Tien HT, Ottova-Leitmannova A (Elsevier, Amsterdam).
30. Yao L, et al. (2013) Near field capillary repulsion. Soft Matter 9(3):779-786.
31. Caffrey M (2009) Crystallizing membrane proteins for structure determination: Use of lipidic mesophases. Annu Rev Biophys 38:29-51.
32. Perro A, Meng G, Fung J, Manoharan VN (2009) Design and synthesis of model transparent aqueous colloids with optimal scattering properties. Langmuir 25(19): 11295-11298.
33. Pelletier V, Gal N, Fournier P, Kilfoil ML (2009) Microrheology of microtubule solutions and actin-microtubule composite networks. Phys Rev Lett 102(18):188303.