Poly hairy’ nanoparticles

Fig. 10 TEM images (scale bars. 100 nm) of (a) PMMA latex armored with Ludox silica nanoparticles. Multilayered nanocomposite polymer colloids with (b) a hairy outer layer of polyacrylonitrile, and (c) a soft shell of poly(n-butyl acrylate). Reproduced from [66] with permission of American Chemical Society...

M. loubert, C. Delaite, E. Bourgeat-Lami, P. Dumas, Synthesis of poly(epsilon-caprolactone)-silica nanocomposites from hairy colloids to core-shell nanoparticles. New J. Chem. 2005, 29,1601-1609. 

For carbon nanotubes, organosoluble PS-SWCNT nanocomposites [292] have been prepared that could be efficiently transformed to highly hydrosoluble, pH-responsive materials via direct sulfonation of the grafted PS chains [296]. In another approach, MWCNT-C H was clicked with azide-functionalized poly(glycerol methacrylate) and the final hairy MWCNTs were used for the in situ synthesis and immobilization of monodisperse 3 nm-sized palladium nanoparticles. The final heterostructure had a high catalytic activity (77%) for the C-C coupling Suzuki reaction between 4-bromobenzene and phenyl boronic acid [293],... 

Sahni, Z., C. Epape, S. Mahouche-Chergui, B. Carbonnier, M. Omastova, M. M. Chehimi. Multiwalled carbon nanotube-cheked poly(4-vinyl pyridine) as a hairy platform for the immobilization of gold nanoparticles. J. Colloid Sci. Biotechnol. 2, 2013 53-61. 

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