Kim, HyewonCarney, Randy P.Reguera, JavierOng, Quy K.Liu, XiangStellacci, Francesco2012-08-172012-08-172012-08-17201210.1002/adma.201200926https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/84923WOS:000306481200012When 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.patchy particlesjanus gold nanoparticlesligand morphologyphase separationMonolayer-Protected NanoparticlesMetal NanoparticlesPatchy ParticlesLigand ShellOne-PhaseAnisotropyClustersSurfacesSpheresDimerstext::journal::journal article::research article