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Preparation and Friction Force Microscopy Measurements of Immiscible, Opposing Polymer Brushes
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Organization of nanoparticles in polymer brushes
Ron Oren1, Ziqi Liang, Jonathan S Barnard
1Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|February 5, 2009
Abstract:
We have demonstrated a facile infiltration process, in which gold nanoparticles are assembled into block copolymer brushes. After solvent annealing, the polymer-covered nanoparticles are either sequestered into the corresponding block copolymer domain or expulsed from the brush, depending on the shell density of the nanoparticles.

