Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

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 …

The research on advanced functional polymers is being driven by the fast-growing demand
for new functional materials that can be used in revolutionary technologies. Polymers can be …

Crystal phase, an intrinsic characteristic of crystalline materials, is one of the key parameters
to determine their physicochemical properties. Recently, great progress has been made in …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) labeled lateral-flow test strip immunoassay (LFTS) has been
widely used in biomedical, feed/food, and environmental analysis fields. Conventional ILFS …

Carbonaceous nanotubes (CTs) represent one of the most popular and effective carbon
electrode materials for supercapacitors, but the electrochemistry performance of CTs is …

Polymer nanocomposites containing nanoscale fillers are an important class of materials
due to their ability to access a wide variety of properties as a function of their composition. In …

Ordered assemblies of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have shown tremendous potential for
wide applications due to their unique collective properties, which differ from those of …

The assembled state of nanoparticles (NPs) within porous matrices plays a governing role in
directing their biological, electronic, and catalytic properties. However, the effects of the …

In this report, we demonstrate the confined assembly of polymer-tethered gold nanorods in
anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) channels with the assistance of electric field (EF). Various …