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Synthesis and Characterization of Janus Gold Nanoparticles

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Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Randy Patrick Carney, Javier Reguera Gomez
2012
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Abstract

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.

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