From cells that migrate to tissues that heal, nature abounds with systems capable of sensing and adapting to their ...

Prof. PENG Chenhui's team from the School of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), realized the collective transfer and reconfigurable self-assembly of colloidal particles by ...

Last year, a South Korean team, inspired by octopus adaptations, developed a metamaterial-based soft machine capable of ...

A recent article in Small describes a modular platform for assembling protein-DNA composites using covalent, site-specific conjugation. This method enables the formation of stable structures with ...

Researchers unveil molecular strategies that enable materials to move, transform, and self-assemble—bridging chemistry and ...

Video summary of dynamic and programmable self-assembly of micro-rafts at the air-water interface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 24, 2017, issue of Science Advances, ...

A team of physicists has created a new way to self-assemble particles -- an advance that offers new promise for building complex and innovative materials at the microscopic level. A team of physicists ...

A programmable metamaterial finger can lock into four positions without electronics. A simpler, more functional future for ...

Areas of Expertise: Complex fluids; interparticle interactions and phase transitions in colloidal suspensions; entropy driven disorder-to-order transitions; physics of protein crystallization and the ...