A Novel Route for Fabricating Metal-Polymer Composite Nanoparticles with Phase-Separated Structures

✍ Scribed by Hiroshi Yabu; Kazutaka Koike; Kiwamu Motoyoshi; Takeshi Higuchi; Masatsugu Shimomura

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 521 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.201000007

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Au nanoparticles (NPs) and polymer composite particles with phase‐separation structures were prepared based on phase separation structures. Au NPs were successfully synthesized in amphiphilic block‐copolymer micelles, and then composite particles were formed by a simple solvent evaporation process from Au NPs and polymer solution. The phase separated structures (Janus and Core‐shell) were controlled by changing the combination of polymers having differing hydrophobicity.

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