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Colloidal dispersions are suspensions of micron-sized solid particles in a solvent like water or oil. Self-assembly is a widely used approach to create ordered structures of colloidal particles by engineering the inter-colloid potential. This article illustrates how entropy drives disorder to order transitions in a colloidal assembly.
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Prerna Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She is an experimentalist in the area of soft matter and biophysics.
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Sharma, P. Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles. Reson 23, 263–275 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-018-0616-0
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