Pickering emulsions are emulsions stabilized by colloidal surfactants, ie solid particles.
Compared with traditional molecular surfactant-stabilized emulsions, Pickering emulsions …

Janus particles with an anisotropic structure have emerged as a focus of intensive research
due to their diverse composition and surface chemistry, which show excellent performance …

Self-assembly, which makes use of molecules rather than atomic units, offers a bottom-up
approach to the construction of new materials on multiple length scales.(1-9) By precisely …

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 …

Janus nanomaterials composed of two compartments with dissimilar compositions and/or
functionalities have garnered considerable interest over the past several decades owing to …

Although the concept of Janus particles was raised in the early 1990s, the related research
has not attracted considerable interest until recently due to the special properties and …

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 …

Electrode materials with high conductivity, strong chemisorption, and catalysis toward
polysulfides are recognized as key factors for metal-sulfur batteries. Nevertheless, the …

Anisotropic particles, such as patchy, multicompartment and Janus particles, have attracted
significant attention in recent years due to their novel morphologies and diverse potential …

Janus nanoarchitectures, an emerging class of nanostructures named after the Roman god
having two faces, have been considered as a fascinating class of nanomaterials for …