Hybrid nanoscale interactions

Hybridization between )r-conjugated polymers and metals at the nanoscale level has been used for luminescence enhancement and to realize biosensing through SPR coupling [6, 64,65,101,102]. The surface plasmon defines a coherent excitation of free electrons in metal nanostructures interacting with an incident electromagnetic... 

Here, the distinct domains of the resulting hybrid polymer are responsible for the self-assembly of the material. It should be noted that there are several other approaches to nanomaterials via ROMP, including the synthesis of dispersed latex nanoparticles, [29-34] hybrid nanoparticles via scaffolded initiation [35-39], and nanoparticles encapsulated in polymer matrices [40,41]. Amphiphilic micellar nanoparticles are by far the most prevalent systems in the literature relevant to a discussion of ROMP in nanoparticle synthesis, particularly those fully characterized in terms of particle formation and morphological characterization of the resulting polymer aggregates. Amphiphilic copolymers synthesized by ROMP that are not studied in this manner [42-45] or those nanoscale architectures involving only covalent interactions [46, 47] are not discussed here. 

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