Polymeric nanoparticles encapsulation heterogeneous polymerization

In the first section, various kinds of functional polymer, in particular the most used conductive polymer, conjugated polymer (CP), redox polymer, metallopolymer. Selection of the correct functional polymer depends on the desired properties of the resulting nanocomposites. The second part of the chapter focuses on the basic approaches used in the preparation of polymeric nanoparticles. As mentioned earlier, there are two basic approaches in the recent literature to synthesize the polymeric nanoparticles. In this section, we focus on the discussion of the common and widely used preparation methods for various kinds of polymeric nanoparticles. The polymerization method is based on the encapsulation of nanoparticles through heterogeneous polymerization in dispersion media. This method can be further classified into emulsion, microemulsion and miniemulsion. Polymer encapsulated nanoparticles can also be prepared directly from preformed polymer, where this approach is based on the specific interactions between nanoparticles and the preformed polymer, such as electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic interactions and secondary molecular interactions or self-assembly method. 

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