Gold-polythiophene blends

Another class of materials, alkanethiol-stabilised metal nanoparticles, display electronic, optical and structural features that are tunable via particle size [67]. The theme of this section is to demonstrate the effects of interfacial chemistry and material heterogeneity on electronic and optical properties of luminescent conjugated polymers at metal interfaces. 

In summary, nanoparticles and polymers can form two distinct components in a composite with a diverse set of properties. The origin of these properties is distinctly different in the two components. One can tailor properties in composites by exploiting the various attributes. Nanoparticle-polymer composites demonstrate a synergistic approach to enhance efficiency in a variety of phenomena and in certain instances to achieve a complete set of novel properties. Considerable efforts to sort out issues such as processibility and stability should lead to the use of such combinations of materials as potential routes to many nanotechnology-based device applications. 

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