Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures.

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The role of local structure in dynamical arrest (2014, background): “The recent explosion in nanoparticles with tuneable properties [187] has led to considerable interest in “bottom-up” self-assembled nanodevices.”
Design principles for self-assembly with short-range interactions (2011, background): “Recent experimental advances in controlling the shape of colloidal scale structures (3) and the highly specific interactions between them (1, 2, 4–8) have led to new possibilities for controlling the equilibrium self-assembly of complex structures.”
Computer simulation of the translocation of nanoparticles with different shapes across a lipid bilayer. (2010, neutral): “Anisotropically shaped nanoparticles can now be create”
Shape-anisotropic colloids: Building blocks for complex assemblies (2011, background): “It is not surprising then that over the past decade colloidal self assembly has been one of the major driving themes in materials science and that an enormous amount of work has been devoted to engineering colloidal building blocks with unusual shapes and functionalities [1–3].”