Plasmonic Janus Microspheres Created from Pickering Emulsion Drops.

Metal nanostructures have been created in a film format to develop unique plasmonic properties. Here, well-defined metal nanostructures are designed on the surface of microspheres to provide plasmonic microgranules. As conventional techniques are inadequate for nanofabrication on spherical surfaces, photocurable emulsion drops with a regular array of silica particles are employed at the interface to create periodic nanostructures.

Janus Microcarriers for Magnetic Field-controlled Combination Chemotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Combination chemotherapy administering multiple chemo-agents is widely exploited for the treatment of various cancers in the clinic. Specially for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most common malignancies, a co-administration of combinational cytostatic multi-kinase inhibitors and cytotoxic chemo-agents has been suggested as a potential curative approach. Here, Janus microcarriers were developed for the controlled local combination chemotherapy of HCC.

Anisotropic microparticles created by phase separation of polymer blends confined in monodisperse emulsion drops.

Anisotropic microparticles are promising as a new class of colloidal or granular materials due to their advanced functionalities which are difficult to achieve with isotropic particles. However, synthesis of the anisotropic microparticles with a highly controlled size and shape still remains challenging, despite their intense demands. Here, we report a microfluidic approach to create uniform anisotropic microparticles using phase separation of polymer blends confined in emulsion drops.