Organo-Inorganic hybrid polymer

William et al. (2005) reviewed various techniques for characterization and trends in the field of nanocomposites. These are new materials made with fillers, which have nanosize and have a big potential for applications in the automotive and aerospace industiy as well as in construction, electrical applications and food packing. There is a tremendous interest for using bio-nanoparticles in the new era of biocomposites by using synthetic and natural fillers in polymer nanocomposites. Aranda et al. (1998) studied the microwave-assisted blending-intercalation of ion-conductor polymers into layered silicates. They prepared organo-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites derived from poly(ethylene oxide) and montmorillonite silicate. They observed that ionic conductivity was enhanced as compared to samples prepared by intercalation from solution. 

Scheme 8 Synthesis of a silica nanowire using the polymer brush template approach, (a) ATRP multi-initiator poly[2-(2-bromoisobutyryloxy)ethyl methacrylate] (PBEM) with degree of polymerization of 3,200 (b) cylindrical polymer brush (CPB) with side chains of 20 APTS units (c) core-shell CPB with an additional 57 OEGMA units (d) soluble organo-sUica hybrid nanowires with a crosslinked silsesquioxane network in the core (e) inorganic silica nanowires after pyrolysis. Reprinted with permissitm liom Yuan et al. [40]...

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