Toroidal-spiral (TS) particles, with large surface-to-volume ratio and well-defined internal channels, were recently generated by a novel process of flash solidification of polymeric droplets during their sedimentation in a miscible solution. TS particles have an overall doughnut or toroidal shape and a thin spiral-shaped channel near the surfaces (Fig. 1a). Entrainment of the bulk solution wit...

We use Brownian dynamics to investigate the self-assembly of single end tethered, laterally tethered, and double end tethered V-shaped nanoparticles. The simulation results are compared with model bent-core molecules without tethers and polymer tethered nanorods to elucidate the combined effects of V-shaped geometry and the immiscibility between the V-shaped nanoparticles and the tethers on the...

In this article we report on the controlled synthesis of asymmetric lemon-shaped and dumbbell-shaped multi-compartment nanoparticles (MCPs) with a reactive surface and interesting morphology. In our approach we utilize partial coating of hematite ellipsoids with a hydrophobic polymer layer followed by selective silica deposition on the non-coated surface. Ellipsoidal hematite particles provide ...

Phase-separated polymer blend composite films exhibiting high thermal diffusivity were prepared by blending a soluble polyimide (BPADA-MPD) and a bismaleimide (BMI) with needle-shaped zinc oxide (n-ZnO) particles followed by high-temperature curing at 250 ◦C. Images recorded with a field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) equipped with wavelength-dispersive spectroscopy (WDS) demons...

We extend the previously proposed concept of equiphase sphere (EPS) to analyze light-scattering properties of arbitrarily shaped particles. Our analyses based on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin technique and numerical studies based on the finite-difference time-domain method demonstrate that a wide range of irregularly shaped particles can be approximated as their equivalent equiphase ellipsoids ...

FeCe nanoparticles were synthesized by simple co-precipitation method using Iron chloride hexahydrate (FeCl3.6H2O) and cerium chloride (CeCl2•5H2O) as precursors in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) surfactant. The samples were characterized by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), X-ray diffraction (XR...

Chaperonins GroEL and GroES form, in the presence of ATP, two types of heterooligomers in solution: an asymmetric GroEL14GroES7 "bullet"-shaped particle and a symmetric GroEL14(GroES7)2 "football"-shaped particle. Under limiting concentrations of ATP or GroES, excess ADP, or in the presence of 5'-adenylyl imidodiphosphate, a correlation is seen between protein folding and the amount of symmetri...

Highly monodisperse polystyrene/poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide) (PS-PNIPMAM) core-shell composite microgels were synthesized and further nanoengineered in either ellipsoidal, faceted or bowl-shaped particles. Beside their anisotropy in shape, the microgel design enables an exquisite control of the particle conformation, size and interactions from swollen and hydrophilic to collapsed and hydroph...