Organization of spherical particles into lattices is typically driven by packing considerations. Although the addition of directional binding can significantly broaden structural diversity, nanoscale implementation remains challenging. Here we investigate the assembly of clusters and lattices in which anisotropic polyhedral blocks coordinate isotropic spherical nanoparticles via shape-induced d...

The influence of nanoparticle shape, in particular the sphere to rod transition, on surface forces and consequently the properties of colloidal fluids is an interesting but not well investigated phenomenon. Here, the surface force behaviour of concentrated surfactant solutions containing cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and sodium salicylate with micelle shapes varying from slightly prolate to hi...

The influence of the shape parameter (oblateness) a uniaxial ellipsoidal nanoparticle on dynamics its magnetic moment upon magnetization along symmetry axis and excitation by weak transverse high-frequency field in region parameters where equilibrium external static is noncollinear has been studied. It shown that as oblateness increases, irregularity oscillations which at first affects only the...