Development of Janus Particles as Potential Drug Delivery Systems for Diabetes Treatment and Antimicrobial Applications [PDF]
Pharmaceutics, 2023 Janus particles have emerged as a novel and smart material that could improve pharmaceutical formulation, drug delivery, and theranostics. Janus particles have two distinct compartments that differ in functionality, physicochemical properties, and ...
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Evanescent field trapping and propulsion of Janus particles along optical nanofibers [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Manipulation of Janus particles is challenging and has limited precision. Here, the authors propose manipulation of Janus particles by optical forces in the evanescent field of an optical nanofiber, and demonstrate that they exhibit strong transverse ...
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Janus particles with tunable patch symmetry and their assembly into chiral colloidal clusters [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Janus particles, which have an attractive patch on the otherwise repulsive surface, have been commonly employed for anisotropic colloidal assembly. While current methods of particle synthesis allow for control over the patch size, they are generally ...
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Application of Janus Particles in Point-of-Care Testing [PDF]
Biosensors, 2022 Janus particles (JPs), named after the two-faced Roman god, are asymmetric particles with different chemical properties or polarities. JPs have been widely used in the biomedical field in recent years, including as drug carriers for targeted controlled ...
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Thermotaxis of Janus particles. [PDF]
Eur Phys J E Soft Matter, 2021 The interactions of autonomous microswimmers play an important role for the formation of collective states of motile active matter. We study them in detail for the common microswimmer-design of two-faced Janus spheres with hemispheres made from different
Auschra S, Bregulla A, Kroy K, Cichos F.
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Janus Particles at Fluid Interfaces: Stability and Interfacial Rheology [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2021 The use of the Janus motif in colloidal particles, i.e., anisotropic surface properties on opposite faces, has gained significant attention in the bottom-up assembly of novel functional structures, design of active nanomotors, biological sensing and ...
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Substrate wettability guided oriented self assembly of Janus particles [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Self-assembly of Janus particles with spatial inhomogeneous properties is of fundamental importance in diverse areas of sciences and has been extensively observed as a favorably functionalized fluidic interface or in a dilute solution. Interestingly, the
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Driven Engulfment of Janus Particles by Giant Vesicles in and out of Thermal Equilibrium [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2022 The interaction between Janus colloids and giant lipid vesicles was experimentally investigated to elucidate the dynamics and mechanisms related to microparticle engulfment by lipid vesicles.
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Janus particles: design, preparation, and biomedical applications [PDF]
Materials Today Bio, 2019 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 in various fields, especially in biomedical applications. In this review,
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Janus particles: recent advances in the biomedical applications [PDF]
International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2019 Tu C Le,1 Jiali Zhai,2 Wei-Hsun Chiu,3 Phong A Tran,3,4 Nhiem Tran21School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia; 2School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia; 3School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical ...
Le TC, Zhai J, Chiu WH, Tran PA, Tran N
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