Colloidal crystals of monodisperse fluoro-nanoparticles by aqueous polymerization-induced self-assembly.

Here, we prepared monodisperse fluorinated nanospheres with the diameter regulated from 100 to 200 nm and PDI of the diameter lower than 0.05 polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA). Mono/multilayered 2D and large-scale ordered 3D lattices were formed by solvent evaporation-induced colloidal self-assembly.

Host-guest complexation modulated aqueous polymerization-induced self-assembly for monodisperse hierarchical nanoflowers.

This work presents a one-step synthesis of monodisperse nanoflowers by aqueous polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA), modulated by host-guest interactions. Owing to the low monomer swelling of nanoparticles restricted by host-guest complexation, hierarchical surficial micellar structures were generated at the outer surface of the vesicles, forming fractal nanoflowers with a diameter polydispersity as low as 1.01.