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Published on: July 2, 2012
Tadpole-like Janus nanotubes
Xiuyuan Zuo1, Meng Zhang1, Qiuhua Wu2
1Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory for Green Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry of Advanced Materials, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China. glzhang@lnu.edu.cn and Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. liangfuxin@tsinghua.edu.cn yangzhenzhong@tsinghua.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Tadpole-like Janus nanotubes with controlled size are fabricated by a sol-gel reaction at the emulsion interface. Pd or Fe3O4 nanoparticles can be selectively captured into their cavities to obtain tadpole-like Janus Pd-nanotubes or tadpole-like Janus Fe3O4-nanotubes. They can be driven directionally by a chemical fuel or near-infrared (NIR) light.
