Self-Assembling of SBS Block Copolymers as Templates for Conductive Silver Nanocomposites

✍ Scribed by Laura Peponi; Agnieszka Tercjak; Junkal Gutierrez; Hartmut Stadler; Luigi Torre; Josè M. Kenny; Iñaki Mondragon

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 356 KB
• Volume: 293
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1438-7492
• DOI: 10.1002/mame.200800033

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Novel nanocomposites based on conductive Ag nanoparticles and a self‐assembled polystyrene‐block‐polybutadiene‐block‐polystyrene (SBS) block copolymer were investigated. Good confinement of the nanoparticles into polystyrene microphase was achieved by the addition of DT as surfactant. The polymeric matrix kept its hexagonal order packed cylindrical structure up to 7 wt.‐% content of Ag nanoparticles. An electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) analysis of well‐dispersed metal‐organic hybrid Ag/SBS films was used to characterize the electric behavior of the conductive nanocomposites.

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