Big news from the lab! Our PhD student Shihao Zang just discovered a brand-new type of colloidal crystal — now officially named Zangenite. It’s a hollow, rod-like structure that popped up during self-assembly experiments and turned out to be something totally unexpected. Find more here
We created a new way to visualize crystals by peering inside their structures, akin to having X-ray vision. This new technique—which we named “Crystal Clear”—combines the use of transparent particles and microscopes with lasers that allow us to see each unit that makes up the crystal and to create dynamic three-dimensional models.
Just published! Discover how TPM's unique properties and synthesis strategies are revolutionizing the field, leading to groundbreaking applications in soft matter science.
Ted's latest News & Views is out in Nature Chemistry
“The colloidal diamond has been a dream of researchers since the 1990s. These structures — stable, self-assembled formations of miniscule materials — have the potential to make light waves as useful as electrons in computing, and hold promise for a host of other applications. But while the idea of colloidal diamonds was developed decades ago, no one was able to reliably produce the structures. Until now. “ read more
Ted’s masterpiece is finally out ! Make your own Opal.
Ionic solids from common colloids -Nature volume 580, pages487–490(2020)
COINS 2020 @ NYU , has been cancelled due to COVID-19 :’(
Polymer precipitation under turbulent flow is used for the high-throughput synthesis of soft microparticles with fractal coronas that display significant adhesive properties. more…
In simple fluids, such as water, invariance under parity and time-reversal symmetry imposes that the rotation of constituent ‘atoms’ is determined by the flow and that viscous stresses damp motion. Activation of the rotational degrees of freedom of a fluid by spinning its atomic building blocks breaks these constraints and has thus been the subject of fundamental theoretical interest across classical and quantum fluids. However, the creation of a model liquid that isolates chiral hydrodynamic phenomena has remained experimentally elusive. Here, we report the creation of … [read more]
Ted’s crystals appeared on the cover of: Self-Assembly of Nano- and Micro-structured Materials Using Colloidal Engineering
This issue explores some of the leading mechanisms, techniques, and visions for the use of shape-change and response as a basis for discovery and development of new colloidal materials.
Read it here.
Zhe Gong, Ted, Mena and Zhe Xu did a wonderful job presenting their work at the APS March meeting in Boston! Highlights below :)
4th graders from NEST visit NYU for hands on experiments !
Building spinning microrotors that self-assemble and synchronize to form a gear sounds like an impossible feat. However, it has now been achieved using only a single type of building block — a colloid that self-propels. Read more...
Jay's research on Magnetic Hexapods just appeared in JACS. The most crazy-looking particles I'll ever see!
The 2nd COLLOID AND INTERFACE SYMPOSIUM 2018 is meeting at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Korea. Check out the lineup at https://coins2018.weebly.com
Together with Thutupalli Lab and Bogaart Lab we were just awarded a Young Investigator Grant from Human Frontiers Science Program
