Synthesis and characterization of Janus gold nanoparticles

Hyewon Kim; Randy Carney; Javier Reguera; Quy K. Ong; Xiang Liu; Francesco Stellacci

doi:10.1002/adma.201200926

Synthesis and characterization of Janus gold nanoparticles

Hyewon Kim, Randy Carney, Javier Reguera, Quy K. Ong, Xiang Liu, Francesco Stellacci

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Abstract

When gold nanoparticles are coated with binary mixtures of dislike ligand molecules, separation in the ligand shell occurs; if the particles are smaller than a threshold size the separation is solely enthalpy driven leading to the spontaneous formation of Janus particles.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3857-3863
Number of pages	7
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	24
Issue number	28
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201200926
State	Published - Jul 24 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

janus gold nanoparticles
ligand morphology
patchy particles
phase separation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Materials Science(all)
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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