Self-assembly of various building blocks has been considered as a powerful approach to
generate novel materials with tailorable structures and optimal properties. Understanding …

Self-assembly, which makes use of molecules rather than atomic units, offers a bottom-up
approach to the construction of new materials on multiple length scales.(1-9) By precisely …

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 …

Anisotropic nanoparticles are ideal building blocks for a variety of functional materials due to
their unique and anisotropic optical, electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties …

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 …

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

Janus particles have a noncentral symmetric structure. Since they have two or more different
physical and chemical properties, they show different properties and application potential of …

Nanocomposites, composed of organic and inorganic building blocks, can combine the
properties from the parent constituents and generate new properties to meet current and …

The incorporation of nanoscopic particles into ordered nanostructures afforded by block
copolymers can provide control over particle distribution and orientation. This could enable …

Janus particles are a unique class of multifunctional patchy particles combining two
dissimilar chemical or physical functionalities at their opposite sides. The asymmetry …