Chemistry, applications, and future prospects of structured liquids

A Ghaffarkhah, SA Hashemi, AA Isari… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Structured liquids are emerging functional soft materials that combine liquid flowability with
solid-like structural stability and spatial organization. Here, we delve into the chemistry and …

Liquid–liquid interfaces: a unique and advantageous environment to prepare and process thin films of complex materials

AJG Zarbin - Materials Horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thin film technology is pervasive for many fields with high impact in our daily lives, which
makes processing materials such as thin films a very important subject in materials science …

Free‐Standing 2D Nanoassemblies

Q Shi, W Cheng - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐standing 2D nanoassemblies are ultrathin nanomembranes or nanosheets
constructed from constituent nanoscale building blocks including metal nanoparticles …

Recent progress of layer‐by‐layer assembly, free‐standing film and hydrogel based on polyelectrolytes

AS Ivanov, LV Pershina, KG Nikolaev… - Macromolecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, polyelectrolytes play an essential role in the development of new materials.
Their use allows creating new properties of materials and surfaces and vary them in a wide …

A versatile AuNP synthetic platform for decoupled control of size and surface composition

Y Yang, LA Serrano, S Guldin - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
While a plethora of protocols exist for the synthesis of sub-10-nm gold nanoparticles
(AuNPs), independent control over the size and surface composition remains restricted. This …

Covalent-cross-linked plasmene nanosheets

Y Liu, B Fan, Q Shi, D Dong, S Gong, B Zhu, R Fu… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Thiol-polystyrene (SH-PS)-capped plasmonic nanoparticles can be fabricated into free-
standing, one-nanoparticle-thick superlattice sheets (termed plasmene) based on physical …

Robust gold nanoparticle sheets by ligand cross-linking at the air–water interface

I Kosif, K Kratz, SS You, MK Bera, K Kim, B Leahy… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the results of cross-linking of two-dimensional gold nanoparticle (Au-NP)
assemblies at the air–water interface in situ. We introduce an aqueous soluble ruthenium …

Array of graphene variable capacitors on 100 mm silicon wafers for vibration-based applications

MN Gikunda, F Harerimana, JM Mangum, S Rahman… - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Highly flexible, electrically conductive freestanding graphene membranes hold great
promise for vibration-based applications. This study focuses on their integration into …

Homogeneous embedding of magnetic nanoparticles into polymer brushes during simultaneous surface-initiated polymerization

W Górka, T Kuciel, P Nalepa, D Lachowicz… - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Here we present a facile and efficient method of controlled embedding of inorganic
nanoparticles into an ultra-thin (< 15 nm) and flat (~ 1.0 nm) polymeric coating that prevents …

Interfacial preparation and optical transmission surface plasmon resonance of Janus metamaterials membrane

Y Du, X Zhang, Y Li - Materials Research Express, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Janus metamaterials membrane had been fabricated using self-assembly strategy at the
oil/water interface with thiol-terminated polymers. Janus metamaterials membrane exhibits a …