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advances will lead to the establishment of more effective synthesis
paradigms for making high-quality colloidal superparticles, which
exhibit well-controlled size, shape, composition, supercrystalline
structures, and interparticle chemical and physical coupling. New
and/or collective catalytic, electronic, electric, magnetic, photonic,
and electrochemical properties of such superparticles will be
discovered and systematically investigated; therefore, it presents
new frontiers in this emerging field. In addition, advances will be
made in the use of these colloidal superparticles as building blocks
for constructing macroscopic functional materials with designed
nanoscopic properties. Moreover, attempts to develop DNA-driven
formation of colloidal superparticles have not been addressed, by
which the resulting superparticles may exhibit interesting dynamic
stability and structures in aqueous solutions.

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Such studies not only
will provide fundamental understanding of superparticle formation
but also may provide access to new and useful nonviral gene delivery
vehicles for combating and preventing disease, as well as novel
electronic and photonic materials for the communications industry.

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