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Using Polystyrene-block-polyacrylic acid-coated Metal Nanoparticles as Monomers for Their Homo- and Co-polymerization
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Facile synthesis of polymer and carbon spheres decorated with highly dispersed metal nanoparticles
Nilantha P Wickramaratne1, Mietek Jaroniec
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA. jaroniec@kent.edu.
Abstract:
Metal nanoparticle-decorated carbon spheres (mn-CSs) are prepared by combining one-pot hydrothermal synthesis and post-synthesis modification. The former sol-gel type process is employed to obtain heteroatom-containing polymer spheres (PSs), which easily attract metal species that, during thermal treatment, are initially converted to nanoparticle-decorated PSs and finally to mn-CSs.

