title: Composite polymer nanoarchitectures from a one-pot hydrothermal route.
abstract: Exploitation of facile and versatile synthetic approaches to polymeric nanoarchitectures is of great interest in polymer science and engineering. Herein, we show that a simple hydrothermal route using double-solvents as reaction media has the ability to generate polymer nanospheres with tunable morphologies and components. In this one-pot approach, condensation polymerization of a resol precursor and radical polymerization of styrene are allowed to occur simultaneously under hydrothermal treatment. The synergistic self-organization of phenol-formaldehyde crosslinked networks and polystyrene chains leads to the formation of well-defined hollow nanospheres with adjustable shell thickness or even Janus particles comprising a solid hemisphere and a hollow hemisphere. Furthermore, control over the composition of the hollow polymer nanospheres can be easily achieved by introducing a third monomer into the hydrothermal system.
authors.affiliation: College of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Shirong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Conghui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Guorong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Weiang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Yiting
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Lizong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dai