Solvent-induced assembly of mono- and divalent silica nanoparticles

• Bin Liu,
• Etienne Duguet and
• Serge Ravaine

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 52–60, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.6

• nanoparticles. Keywords: assembly; chain stopper; patchy nanoparticles; patch-to-particle size ratio; self-assembly; Introduction Colloidal engineering has become an enormous research endeavor, with a major focus placed on creating increasingly scalable smart particles, such that desired structures can be

• length strongly depends of the 1-PSN/2-PSN ratio: the higher the ratio, the shorter the chains after 120 h of incubation. The chain stopper strategy allowed us to finely tune the degree of polymerization at any incubation time, as shown in Figure 6b. For instance, at t = 9 h, the average number of 2-PSN