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Nanoparticle Assembly:A Perspective and some Unanswered Questions


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1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States
2 Polymer Science and Engineering Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, India
3 Physical/Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, India
4 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India
5 IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 44919, Korea, Republic of
6 Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York, NY11973-5000, United States
7 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
8 Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
9 Department of Chemical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
 

In early 2016, the Royal Society of Chemistry arranged a meeting on the topic 'Nanoparticle Assemblies: from Fundamentals to Applications' which was hosted at IIT-Bombay, Mumbai. The meeting brought several leading nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers to India and is only the second Faraday Discussions meeting to have been held in the country. The papers presented at the meeting and the resulting active discussions have been summarized in a Faraday Discussion issue. The broad range of topics discussed at the meeting led to an understanding on where we stand in the field of nanoparticle assembly, and also enunciated some of the outstanding fundamental and practical issues that remain to be resolved before these ideas can be applied to practical situations. Driven by these ideas, here we focus on four topics/questions: (i) Can we achieve function- driven design of nanoparticle assemblies? (ii) What is the minimal information needed to build a desired assembly? (iii) How complex a structure can one build? How can one make it responsive? What are the relative roles of equilibrium versus dynamics in the assembly process, and are we at a point where we can now pursue active assembly as a viable mode for creating complex assemblies? (iv) What are the applications that are being targeted and what are the barriers to implementation? In this perspective, we do not present an exhaustive survey of the vast literature in this area, but indicate overarching themes/questions that require immediate attention, largely based on the discussions at the Mumbai meeting.

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Function-Driven Design, Fundamental Issues, Nanoparticle Assembly, Practical Applications.
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Authors

Sanat K. Kumar
Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States
Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
Polymer Science and Engineering Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, India
Bhagavatula L. V. Prasad
Physical/Materials Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411 008, India
Rajdip Bandyopadhyaya
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai 400 076, India
Steve Granick
IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, 44919, Korea, Republic of
Oleg Gang
Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York, NY11973-5000, United States
Vinothan N. Manoharan
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Daan Frenkel
Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Nicholas A. Kotov
Department of Chemical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States

Abstract


In early 2016, the Royal Society of Chemistry arranged a meeting on the topic 'Nanoparticle Assemblies: from Fundamentals to Applications' which was hosted at IIT-Bombay, Mumbai. The meeting brought several leading nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers to India and is only the second Faraday Discussions meeting to have been held in the country. The papers presented at the meeting and the resulting active discussions have been summarized in a Faraday Discussion issue. The broad range of topics discussed at the meeting led to an understanding on where we stand in the field of nanoparticle assembly, and also enunciated some of the outstanding fundamental and practical issues that remain to be resolved before these ideas can be applied to practical situations. Driven by these ideas, here we focus on four topics/questions: (i) Can we achieve function- driven design of nanoparticle assemblies? (ii) What is the minimal information needed to build a desired assembly? (iii) How complex a structure can one build? How can one make it responsive? What are the relative roles of equilibrium versus dynamics in the assembly process, and are we at a point where we can now pursue active assembly as a viable mode for creating complex assemblies? (iv) What are the applications that are being targeted and what are the barriers to implementation? In this perspective, we do not present an exhaustive survey of the vast literature in this area, but indicate overarching themes/questions that require immediate attention, largely based on the discussions at the Mumbai meeting.

Keywords


Function-Driven Design, Fundamental Issues, Nanoparticle Assembly, Practical Applications.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv112%2Fi08%2F1635-1641