Permanent Assembly of Soft Matter Chains as New Materials

Binding with oppositely charged
particles

•Heteroaggregate
structure directed by AC-electric field

•Chain
length distribution tuned by particle size/number ratio

•Developed
a unique combinatorial approach for predicting chain length

Binding with surfactant

 •Fabricated
ultra-flexible magnetic nanoparticle chains by surfactant mediation

•Controlled
the melting of magnetic chains by temp. 

•Assembled
hierarchal structures by manipulating the directionality of magnetic field