Thermoresponsive poly(N-vinyl caprolactam)-coated gold nanoparticles: sharp reversible response and easy tunability
Mariana Beija1, Jean-Daniel Marty, Mathias Destarac
1Laboratoire IMRCP, CNRS UMR 5623, University of Toulouse, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 18, 2011
Abstract:
Narrowly distributed poly(N-vinyl caprolactam) obtained by the MADIX/RAFT process was used for the preparation of novel thermoresponsive gold nanoparticles presenting a sharp reversible response to temperature, which can be easily modulated near the physiological temperature by simply changing the polymer molecular weight or concentration.
