… radical polymerization from nanoparticles: a tool for the preparation of well-defined hybrid nanostructures and for understanding the chemistry of controlled/“living” …

T von Werne, TE Patten

Index: von Werne; Patten Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2001 , vol. 123, # 31 p. 7497 - 7505

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Citation Number: 607

Abstract

Structurally well-defined polymer-nanoparticle hybrids were prepared by modifying the surface of silica nanoparticles with initiators for atom transfer radical polymerization and by using these initiator-modified nanoparticles as macroinitiators. Well-defined polymer chains were grown from the nanoparticle surfaces to yield individual particles composed of a silica core and a well-defined, densely grafted outer polystyrene or poly (methyl methacrylate) ...