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Marina Sebastian1,2, Andreas Fery1,2, Arash Nikoubashman3,4
1Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Physik der Polymere, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V., Hohe Straße 6, D-01069, Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
We study the formation of hybrid polymer/inorganic colloidal particles with multicompartmentalized structure, comprising gold nanoparticles grafted with polystyrene-block-poly(methacrylic acid) (PSt-block-PMAA) diblock copolymer ligands, through experiments and molecular dynamics simulations. The PMAA blocks segregate into small satellite-like domains that are separated by the polystyrene spacer from the gold nanoparticle core. Dialysis against water leads to the re-configuration of the formed structures into unique, kinetically trapped pinned-micelle-decorated nanoparticles with internal structure.
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