colloidal
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Light programmable colloidal crystals may eventually enable reconfigurable optical coatings, adaptive sensors, and next generation display and data storage technologies, where patterns and functions are defined dynamically by illumination rather than fixed during manufacturing.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
The researchers' device represents the first hydrovoltaic application of a technique called nanosphere colloidal lithography, which allowed them to create a hexagonal network of precisely spaced silicon nanopillars.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
Secondly, flexible DNA provides additional degrees of freedom in the assembly of non-space-filling polyhedral nanoparticles, leading to the creation of complex crystals with symmetries not previously achievable with colloidal crystal engineering with DNA.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
Before Paltrow, libertarians gravitated toward colloidal silver in the early aughts in part thanks to a man named Stan Jones, who also turned blue from ingesting too much colloidal silver.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2024
I was able to assure him by return of post that the figure was the result of the crystallization of copper sulphate in a colloidal medium.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
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