Janus particles: from synthesis to application

E Poggi, JF Gohy - Colloid and Polymer Science, 2017 - Springer
Janus particles have built momentum in the last years owing to their unique structure and
properties. In this review, we present an overview of the advances in the field of non …

Janus particles at fluid interfaces: Stability and interfacial rheology

EL Correia, N Brown, S Razavi - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of the Janus motif in colloidal particles, ie, anisotropic surface properties on
opposite faces, has gained significant attention in the bottom-up assembly of novel …

Colloidal fibers and rings by cooperative assembly

JS Oh, S Lee, SC Glotzer, GR Yi, DJ Pine - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Janus colloids with one attractive patch on an otherwise repulsive particle surface serve as
model systems to explore structure formation of particles with chemically heterogeneous …

Enhanced thermal conductivity of nanofluids by introducing Janus particles

X Cui, J Wang, G **a - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The addition of nanoparticles to a base fluid (ie, nanofluids) is an effective strategy to
achieve a higher thermal conductivity of a fluid. In a common nanofluid, the suspended …

Limiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules

E Bianchi, B Capone, I Coluzza, L Rovigatti… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Limited bonding valence, usually accompanied by well-defined directional interactions and
selective bonding mechanisms, is nowadays considered among the key ingredients to …

Janus droplet formation via thermally induced phase separation: a numerical model with diffusion and convection

H Zhang, F Wang, B Nestler - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microscale Janus particles have versatile potential applications in many physical and
biomedical fields, such as microsensor, micromotor, and drug delivery. Here, we present a …

Efficient mesoscale hydrodynamics: Multiparticle collision dynamics with massively parallel GPU acceleration

MP Howard, AZ Panagiotopoulos… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics
(MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We …

Diffusion and sedimentation in colloidal suspensions using multiparticle collision dynamics with a discrete particle model

YM Wani, PG Kovakas, A Nikoubashman… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We study self-diffusion and sedimentation in colloidal suspensions of nearly hard spheres
using the multiparticle collision dynamics simulation method for the solvent with a discrete …

Structure and dynamics of amphiphilic Janus spheres and spherocylinders under shear

Y Kobayashi, N Arai, A Nikoubashman - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the structure formation and flow properties of colloidal dispersions comprised of
Janus spheres, Janus spherocylinders, and their mixtures, using hybrid molecular dynamics …

Plastic crystal-to-crystal transition of Janus particles under shear

Z Huang, G Zhu, P Chen, C Hou, LT Yan - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Colloidal Janus spheres in the bulk typically spontaneously assemble into plastic crystalline
phases, while particle orientations exhibit glasslike dynamics without long-range order …