Issue 2, 2017
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Materials Horizons

Programmable and reversible assembly of soft capillary multipoles†

Jinhye Bae, ORCID logo a   Nakul P. Bende, ORCID logo a   Arthur A. Evans,b   Jun-Hee Na,a   Christian D. Santangelo*b  and  Ryan C. Hayward ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
E-mail: hayward@umass.edu

b Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
E-mail: csantang@physics.umass.edu

Abstract

The capillary assembly of stimulus-responsive hydrogel particles with programmed multipolar interactions defined by their prescribed three-dimensional (3D) shapes is demonstrated. Low-energy bending deformations of the particles, driven by surface tension, modifies the interactions between particles, while their temperature-dependent swelling enables switchable assembly.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6MH00531D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
26 Nov 2016
Accepted
16 Jan 2017
First published
26 Jan 2017

Mater. Horiz., 2017,4, 228-235

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Programmable and reversible assembly of soft capillary multipoles

J. Bae, N. P. Bende, A. A. Evans, J. Na, C. D. Santangelo and R. C. Hayward, Mater. Horiz., 2017, 4, 228 DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00531D

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