Over the last few decades there has been a huge interest in nanostructured functional
materials and assembly techniques for preparing functional molecular assemblies with …

ABSTRACT Two-dimensional (2D) Janus materials are a new class of materials with unique
physical, chemical, and quantum properties. The name “Janus” originates from the ancient …

Although the concept of Janus particles was raised in the early 1990s, the related research
has not attracted considerable interest until recently due to the special properties and …

Colloidal particles may be considered as building blocks for materials, just like atoms are the
bricks of molecules, macromolecules, and crystals. Periodic arrays of colloids (colloidal …

Optical reflection, or in other words the loss of reflection, from a surface becomes
increasingly crucial in determining the extent of the light-matter interaction. The simplest …

The layer-by-layer (LbL) adsorption technique offers an easy and inexpensive process for
multilayer formation and allows a variety of materials to be incorporated within the film …

Anisotropic particles, such as patchy, multicompartment and Janus particles, have attracted
significant attention in recent years due to their novel morphologies and diverse potential …

New frontiers in materials and polymer science include the development of assembly
processes that are flexible, allow the access and implementation of nanoscale structure and …

Because the Roman god Janus was usually represented with two heads placed back to
back, the term Janus is used for the description of particles whose surfaces of both …

Colloidal lithography is a recently emerging field; the evolution of this simple technique is
still in progress. Recent advances in this area have developed a variety of practical routes of …