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Designer nanojunctions: orienting shaped nanoparticles within polymer thin-film nanocomposites
Bo Gao1, Yahya Alvi, David Rosen
1NanoEngineering Department, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr #0448, La Jolla, CA 92093-0448, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 6, 2012
Abstract:
We demonstrate that polymer-grafted metal nanoparticles of various shapes and dimensions self-assemble into arrays of string-like superstructures upon phase separation within a matrix polymer. Interparticle orientation within these nanocomposites can be dictated by the chain length of the grafted polymer.
