Conelike Janus Composite Particles

Abstract

Conelike cross-linked PS particles are polymerized at a patchy emulsion interface. The PS particles synthesized in the dispersed paraffin phase immigrate toward the interface due to the Pickering effect. At the triple phase contact line, the particles are squeezed into cone shape under an outward convex interfacial tension mismatch. The conelike PS particles are adhered to paraffin sphere surface and synchronously protected, which allows selective modifications of the two sides. The Janus particles can self-organize into superstructures in dispersions. Robust coatings are easily fabricated from the Janus particles, whose wettability is tunable from highly adhesive for water to superhydrophobic by simply changing the size distribution of the Janus particles