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Microfluidic fabrication of Janus particles: wetting, surface forces and hydrodynamics

Antonio Stocco

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Colloids and nanoparticles possessing two different faces with distinct properties are called Janus as the Roman God depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. In this talk a fabrication of Janus particles by droplet based microfluidics will be presented. Silica colloids dispersed in the oil phase and gold nanoparticles dispersed in the aqueous phase meet at the droplet oil-water interface. The contact angle of the silica colloid defines the area of the silica face immersed in water, which can be decorated by the gold nanoparticles, forming the Janus silica-gold particle. Many physical and physicochemical aspects take part in this process. Wetting of the silica and gold particles set the contact angle of the particles at the droplet interface, which depends strongly on the chemical groups used to stabilize the particles, and in principle allow the fabrication of Janus particles of different area ratios. Adsorption onto the oil-water interface is also a key process, which depends not only on the concentration but also on the hydrodynamic flows and geometry present in the microfluidic channels. The role of long range surface forces such as Van der Waals and electrostatic will be also highlighted both for the adsorption kinetics and for the effect on the particle size dependent contact angle.
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hal-01329861 , version 1 (09-06-2016)

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Antonio Stocco. Microfluidic fabrication of Janus particles: wetting, surface forces and hydrodynamics. EMN Droplets, May 2016, San Sebastian, Spain. ⟨hal-01329861⟩
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