Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Self-assembly of copolymer micelles: higher-level assembly for constructing hierarchical structure

Y Lu, J Lin, L Wang, L Zhang, C Cai - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the self-assembly of copolymer micelles has become an appealing frontier
of supramolecular chemistry as a strategy to construct superstructures with multiple levels of …

Janus nanoparticles: From fabrication to (bio) applications

X Zhang, Q Fu, H Duan, J Song, H Yang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Janus nanoparticles (JNPs) refer to the integration of two or more chemically discrepant
composites into one structure system. Studies into JNPs have been of significant interest …

Janus particles: synthesis, self-assembly, physical properties, and applications

A Walther, AHE Muller - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
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 …

Janus particle synthesis, assembly, and application

J Zhang, BA Grzybowski, S Granick - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
Janus particles are colloidal particles with more than a single type of surface chemistry or
composition, ranging in size from hundreds of nanometers to a few micrometers. Like …

Guided hierarchical co-assembly of soft patchy nanoparticles

AH Gröschel, A Walther, TI Löbling, FH Schacher… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The concept of hierarchical bottom-up structuring commonly encountered in natural
materials provides inspiration for the design of complex artificial materials with advanced …

Engineering functional polymer capsules toward smart nanoreactors

J Gaitzsch, X Huang, B Voit - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The design and construction of integrated chemical ensembles for studying complex
biological systems is attracting considerable interest in a wide range of research …

Self-assembly concepts for multicompartment nanostructures

AH Gröschel, AHE Müller - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Compartmentalization is ubiquitous to many biological and artificial systems, be it for the
separate storage of incompatible matter or to isolate transport processes. Advancements in …

Recent advances in scalable synthesis and performance of Janus polymer/inorganic nanocomposites

Y Liu, J Wang, Y Shao, R Deng, J Zhu… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Janus nanomaterials composed of two compartments with dissimilar compositions and/or
functionalities have garnered considerable interest over the past several decades owing to …

Janus nanoparticles: Recent advances in their interfacial and biomedical applications

G Agrawal, R Agrawal - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this contribution, a spotlight is given to Janus nanoparticles, which offer a promising future
for interfacial applications, such as catalysis, and different biomedical purposes ranging from …