Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Surfactants, whose existence has been recognized as early as 2800 BC, have had a long
history with the development of human civilization. With the rapid development of …

BACKGROUND Interactions between inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) are central to a wide
spectrum of physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. An understanding of these …

Symmetric shapes and patterns are fascinating and preferred by humans as symmetric
stimuli of any kind are more easily processed by the visual systems than their asymmetric …

Research on Janus nanoparticles has been thriving over the past few years, focusing both
on novel preparation strategies and on investigations of their unique properties. In this paper …

Janus nanoparticles (JNPs), as a new and special type of nanoparticles (NPs), have a great
potential to use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes. The surfaces of JNPs have two …

Receptor-targeting peptides have been extensively pursued for improving binding specificity
and effective accumulation of drugs at the site of interest, and have remained challenging for …

Natural surfaces are often structured with nanometre-scale domains, yet a framework
providing a quantitative understanding of how nanostructure affects interfacial energy, γ SL …

It is accepted that the ligand shell morphology of nanoparticles coated with a monolayer of
molecules can be partly responsible for important properties such as cell membrane …