- Ghaffarkhah, Ahmadreza;
- Hashemi, Seyyed Alireza;
- Ahmadijokani, Farhad;
- Goodarzi, Milad;
- Riazi, Hossein;
- Mhatre, Sameer E;
- Zaremba, Orysia;
- Rojas, Orlando J;
- Soroush, Masoud;
- Russell, Thomas P;
- Wuttke, Stefan;
- Kamkar, Milad;
- Arjmand, Mohammad
Janus structures have unique properties due to their distinct functionalities on opposing faces, but have yet to be realized with flowing liquids. We demonstrate such Janus liquids with a customizable distribution of nanoparticles (NPs) throughout their structures by joining two aqueous streams of NP dispersions in an apolar liquid. Using this anisotropic integration platform, different magnetic, conductive, or non-responsive NPs can be spatially confined to opposite sides of the original interface using magnetic graphene oxide (mGO)/GO, Ti3C2Tx/GO, or GO suspensions. The resultant Janus liquids can be used as templates for versatile, responsive, and mechanically robust aerogels suitable for piezoresistive sensing, human motion monitoring, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding with a tuned absorption mechanism. The EMI shields outperform their current counterparts in terms of wave absorption, i.e., SET ≈ 51 dB, SER ≈ 0.4 dB, and A = 0.91, due to their high porosity ranging from micro- to macro-scales along with non-interfering magnetic and conductive networks imparted by the Janus architecture.