Synthesis and assembly of patchy particles: Recent progress and future prospects
Résumé
The burgeoning need to fabricate new functional materials through the assembly of colloidal building blocks has motivated an intensive research focused on patchy particles. A large variety of efficient strategies to synthesize and assemble such colloids have been investigated in the last few years. Here we attempt to give an overview of these latest developments. The major limitations of current methods as well as unresolved challenges are also discussed.