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While both static and dynamic CMs have been synthesized to mimic molecular geometries, assembling them from simple colloidal building blocks via controllable interactions remains a challenge. Here, we employ Brownian dynamics simulations with experimentally realizable interaction models to investigate the electric-field-directed assembly of binary colloidal mixtures. By modulating electrohydrodynamic attraction and dipolar repulsion between particles and leveraging particle size ratios, we demonstrate the formation of two-dimensional and pseudo-two-dimensional CMs with various valences and geometric shapes. This valence-assisted strategy further supports the bottom-up construction of open colloidal lattices, including square and honeycomb arrangements. It also enables the simultaneous stabilization of both square packing and triangular packing at high particle concentrations. 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