The spatial arrangement of plasmonic nanoparticles can dramatically affect their interaction
with electromagnetic waves, which offers an effective approach to systematically control their …

Creation of architectures with exquisite hierarchies actuates the germination of
revolutionized functions and applications across a wide range of fields. Hierarchical self …

Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been recently applied to
materials chemistry to gain fundamental understanding of various reaction and phase …

Synthesizing patchy particles with predictive control over patch size, shape, placement and
number has been highly sought-after for nanoparticle assembly research, but is fraught with …

Polymer patching on inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) enables multifunctionality and directed
self-assembly into nonclosely packed optical and mechanical metamaterials. However …

Colloids are mainly divided into two types defined by size. Micron-scale colloids are widely
used as model systems to study phase transitions, while nanoparticles have …

We apply the concept of “island formation” established for planar substrates, where ligands
laterally cluster as they adsorb, to preparing nanoparticles (NPs) with precisely sized surface …

Plasmonic heterostructures composed of plasmonic metal nanocrystals (NCs) and
semiconductors or metals have been attracting extensive attention due to their extraordinary …

We report a polymer brush-based approach for fabricating multivalent patchy nanoparticles
(NPs) with the number of nanodomains (valency) from 6 to 10, potentially from 1 to 10, by …

Using two orthogonal external stimuli, programmable staged surface patterning and self‐
assembly of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) was achieved. For gold NPs capped with end …