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The collective self-assembly of colloidal particles can be influenced by the composition of the suspending medium, the bulk material of the particles themselves and, importantly, by their surface chemistry. This can be inhomogeneous or patchy to give an orientational dependence to the interaction potential between the particles. These additional constraints to the energy landscape then steer the self-assembly towards configurations of fundamental or applicational interest. We present a novel approach to modify the surface chemistry of colloidal particles to give them two polar patches, using gaseous ligands. In particular, we synthesize polar inverse patchy colloids, i.e., charged particles with two (fluorescent) patches of the opposite charge on their poles. We characterize the dependence of these charges on the pH of the suspending solution.
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