Organization of nanoparticles in polymer brushes.
We have demonstrated a facile infiltration process, in which gold nanoparticles are assembled into block copolymer brushes. After solvent annealing, the polymer-covered nanoparticles are either sequestered into the corresponding block copolymer domain or expulsed from the brush, depending on the shell density of the nanoparticles.
Oren
Ron
R
Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK.
Liang
Ziqi
Z
Barnard
Jonathan S
JS
Warren
Scott C
SC
Wiesner
Ulrich
U
Huck
Wilhelm T S
WT