Although gold is the subject of one of the most ancient themes of investigation in science, its
renaissance now leads to an exponentially increasing number of publications, especially in …

Recently the focus of the Langmuir–Blodgett technique as a method of choice to transfer
monolayers from the air/water interface onto solid substrates in a controllable fashion has …

Two types of amphiphilic gold nanoparticles (AuNP-1 and-2) grafted with a mixture of poly
(N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) and polystyrene (PS) chains in two different compositions …

Calixarenes are excellent surfactants for enhancing the dispersion and self-assembly of
metal nanoparticles into well-defined structures, particularly those with unit length scales in …

In this paper we present a study of pattern formation in bidimensional systems with
competing short-range attractive and long-range repulsive interactions. The interaction …

The air–water interface has traditionally been employed to prepare particle assemblies and
films of metals and semiconductors. The interface between water and an organic liquid …

Preparation of high-quality functional films with nanoscale thickness and tunable layers is
highly preferable and indispensable for optoelectronic applications, having drawn enormous …

We investigate the formation and properties of crude oil/water interfacial films. The time
evolution of interfacial tension suggests the presence of short and long timescale processes …

Photonic balls are spheres tens of micrometers in diameter containing assemblies of
nanoparticles or nanopores with a spacing comparable to the wavelength of light. When …

Two‐and three‐dimensional, ordered nanocrystal arrays are formed from the self‐assembly
of water‐soluble nanocrystal–micelles that are prepared using surfactant encapsulation …