The jamming of nanoparticle surfactants (NPSs) at liquid–liquid interface imparts attractive properties to the interfacial assemblies and enables structuring liquids. Herein, we report photoresponsive supramolecular microcapsules with jammed NPS oil-water interface, taking advantage host–guest molecular recognition. permeability colloidal membrane can be effectively manipulated by switching NPS...

Mesoporous materials have a high potential for a number of different applications in Materials Science such as in molecular sieving, as masks for the formation of nanometre-sized metallic wires, as novel drug-delivery systems or as advanced host systems for catalysis. For many of these applications a thorough understanding of the interaction of guest molecules within the host matrix is required...