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Colloidal self-assembly

Patchy from the bottom up

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The realization of a self-assembled kagome lattice from colloids with attractive hydrophobic patches offers a simple but powerful example of the bottom-up design strategy.

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Figure 1: Sketch of the phase diagram of triblock Janus particles6.
Figure 2: Cartoons of patchy colloids with (red) patches centred along the particles' equator.

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