Programming Self-Assembled Materials With DNA-Coated Colloids

Introducing the concept of programmability paves way for designing complex and intelligent materials, where materials’ structural information is pre-encoded in components that build system. With highly tunable interactions, DNA-coated particles are promising building elements to program materials at colloidal scale, but several grand challenges have prevented them from assembling into desired structures phases. In recent years, field has seen significant progress tackling these challenges, which led realization numerous dynamics previously inaccessible, including desirable diamond structure, useful photonic various other applications. We review this exciting progress, focusing detail on how colloids can be designed a sophisticatedly tailored surface, shape, patches, as well controlled kinetics, key factors allow one principle limitless number structures. also share our view may directed future.