The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their
enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of …

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 …

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 …

Measuring Ensemble-Averaged Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in the Hotspots of
Colloidal Nanoparticle Dimers and Trimers | Journal of the American Chemical Society ACS …

Colloidal micro-and nanoparticles with controlled internal architectures have attracted recent
interest because of their promising properties for drug delivery, molecular imaging and self …

Hollow micro-/nano-spheres with large-through-holes in shells (denoted as HMLS) have
demonstrated great potential in biomedical applications owing to the combination of hollow …

Janus structures, named after the ancient two‐faced Roman god Janus, comprise two
hemistructures (eg hemispheres) with different compositions and functionalities. Much …

The most studied effect of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) hotspots is the
enormous Raman enhancement of the analytes therein. A less known effect, though, is that …

Segregated ligand coordination on the Au surface was utilized to direct anisotropic silica
deposition and generate Janus Au− SiO2 nanoparticles; subsequent growth of Ag …

Janus graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets functionalized by amino-containing chemicals were
prepared via Pickering emulsion template. A wax-in-water Pickering emulsion was used to …