Playdough-inspired technique makes patchy particles

Researchers in the US and South Korea have developed a new technique dubbed “colloidal fusion” to construct patchy nanoparticles that can spontaneously self-assemble into a myriad of more complex architectures. The method might be used to fabricate the building blocks for a wide variety of electronics and optoelectronics devices…..

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/70007