Year: 2012
Journal: Adv. Mater., 2012, 24 (28), 3857-3863, 20131009
Authors: Hyewon Kim, Randy P. Carney, Javier Reguera, Quy K. Ong, Xiang Liu, Francesco Stellacci
Organizations: Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-STI-IMX-SuNMIL, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
When gold nanoparticles are coated with binary mixtures of dislike ligand molecules, separation in the ligand shell occurs; if the particles are smaller than a threshold size the separation is solely enthalpy driven leading to the spontaneous formation of Janus particles.
