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Yin R, Tarnsangpradit J, Gul A, Jeong J, Hu X, Zhao Y, Wu H, Li Q, Fytas G, Karim A, Bockstaller MR, Matyjaszewski K. Organic nanoparticles with tunable size and rigidity by hyperbranching and cross-linking using microemulsion ATRP. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2406337121. [PMID: 38985759 PMCID: PMC11260123 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2406337121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 06/13/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Unlike inorganic nanoparticles, organic nanoparticles (oNPs) offer the advantage of "interior tailorability," thereby enabling the controlled variation of physicochemical characteristics and functionalities, for example, by incorporation of diverse functional small molecules. In this study, a unique inimer-based microemulsion approach is presented to realize oNPs with enhanced control of chemical and mechanical properties by deliberate variation of the degree of hyperbranching or cross-linking. The use of anionic cosurfactants led to oNPs with superior uniformity. Benefitting from the high initiator concentration from inimer and preserved chain-end functionality during atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), the capability of oNPs as a multifunctional macroinitiator for the subsequent surface-initiated ATRP was demonstrated. This facilitated the synthesis of densely tethered poly(methyl methacrylate) brush oNPs. Detailed analysis revealed that exceptionally high grafting densities (~1 nm-2) were attributable to multilayer surface grafting from oNPs due to the hyperbranched macromolecular architecture. The ability to control functional attributes along with elastic properties renders this "bottom-up" synthetic strategy of macroinitiator-type oNPs a unique platform for realizing functional materials with a broad spectrum of applications.
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- Rongguan Yin
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX77204
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz55128, Germany
- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion70013, Greece
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz55128, Germany
- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion70013, Greece
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX77204
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213
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Vo T. Theory and simulation of ligand functionalized nanoparticles - a pedagogical overview. SOFT MATTER 2024; 20:3554-3576. [PMID: 38646950 DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00177j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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Synthesizing reconfigurable nanoscale synthons with predictive control over shape, size, and interparticle interactions is a holy grail of bottom-up self-assembly. Grand challenges in their rational design, however, lie in both the large space of experimental synthetic parameters and proper understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing their formation. As such, computational and theoretical tools for predicting and modeling building block interactions have grown to become integral in modern day self-assembly research. In this review, we provide an in-depth discussion of the current state-of-the-art strategies available for modeling ligand functionalized nanoparticles. We focus on the critical role of how ligand interactions and surface distributions impact the emergent, pre-programmed behaviors between neighboring particles. To help build insights into the underlying physics, we first define an "ideal" limit - the short ligand, "hard" sphere approximation - and discuss all experimental handles through the lens of perturbations about this reference point. Finally, we identify theories that are capable of bridging interparticle interactions to nanoscale self-assembly and conclude by discussing exciting new directions for this field.
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- Thi Vo
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
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Moussavi A, Pal S, Wu Z, Keten S. Characterizing the shear response of polymer-grafted nanoparticles. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:134903. [PMID: 38573850 DOI: 10.1063/5.0188494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024] Open
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Grafting polymer chains to the surface of nanoparticles overcomes the challenge of nanoparticle dispersion within nanocomposites and establishes high-volume fractions that are found to enable enhanced material mechanical properties. This study utilizes coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to quantify how the shear modulus of polymer-grafted nanoparticle (PGN) systems in their glassy state depends on parameters such as strain rate, nanoparticle size, grafting density, and chain length. The results are interpreted through further analysis of the dynamics of chain conformations and volume fraction arguments. The volume fraction of nanoparticles is found to be the most influential variable in deciding the shear modulus of PGN systems. A simple rule of mixture is utilized to express the monotonic dependence of shear modulus on the volume fraction of nanoparticles. Due to the reinforcing effect of nanoparticles, shortening the grafted chains results in a higher shear modulus in PGNs, which is not seen in linear systems. These results offer timely insight into calibrating molecular design parameters for achieving the desired mechanical properties in PGNs.
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- Arman Moussavi
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Neumann SE, Kwon J, Gropp C, Ma L, Giovine R, Ma T, Hanikel N, Wang K, Chen T, Jagani S, Ritchie RO, Xu T, Yaghi OM. The propensity for covalent organic frameworks to template polymer entanglement. Science 2024; 383:1337-1343. [PMID: 38513024 DOI: 10.1126/science.adf2573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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The introduction of molecularly woven three-dimensional (3D) covalent organic framework (COF) crystals into polymers of varying types invokes different forms of contact between filler and polymer. Whereas the combination of woven COFs with amorphous and brittle polymethyl methacrylate results in surface interactions, the use of the liquid-crystalline polymer polyimide induces the formation of polymer-COF junctions. These junctions are generated by the threading of polymer chains through the pores of the nanocrystals, thus allowing for spatial arrangement of polymer strands. This offers a programmable pathway for unthreading polymer strands under stress and leads to the in situ formation of high-aspect-ratio nanofibrils, which dissipate energy during the fracture. Polymer-COF junctions also strengthen the filler-matrix interfaces and lower the percolation thresholds of the composites, enhancing strength, ductility, and toughness of the composites by adding small amounts (~1 weight %) of woven COF nanocrystals. The ability of the polymer strands to closely interact with the woven framework is highlighted as the main parameter to forming these junctions, thus affecting polymer chain penetration and conformation.
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- S Ephraim Neumann
- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Zhang X, Lyu Q, Chen X, Li M, Zhang L, Zhu J. Colloidal Photonic Composites with a Long-Range Order by Hot-Pressing Polymer Brush-Grafted Silica Colloids. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024. [PMID: 38477047 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c00184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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Colloidal photonic composites (CPCs) are unique optical materials that combine flexible and responsive polymers with colloidal photonic crystals, and they have promising applications in colorful displays, optical anticounterfeiting, and visual sensors. However, conventional self-assembly strategies for constructing CPCs via solvent evaporation have faced limitations due to the meticulous regulation required during the evaporation process and typically long preparation durations. Here, we present an external force method to achieve a long-range ordered arrangement in CPCs by hot-pressing poly(2-[[(butylamino)carbonyl]oxy]ethyl acrylate (PBCOE)) brush-grafted silica colloidal particles (SiO2-g-PBCOE). We show that the hot-pressing conditions (i.e., temperature and pressure) and the silica volume fraction (φsilica) of the SiO2-g-PBCOE colloidal particles play crucial roles in determining their ordering and optical properties. By optimization of the hot-pressing temperature up to 100 °C and pressure of 5 MPa, a long-range ordered arrangement of SiO2-g-PBCOE colloidal particles with a φsilica of 20.3% can be achieved. For the effect of structural features, our findings reveal that SiO2-g-PBCOE colloidal particles featuring a higher φsilica are more prone to obtain a long-range ordered arrangement compared to a lower φsilica under hot-pressing conditions at relatively low temperature and pressure (50 °C and 5 MPa), which is mainly attributed to the chain entanglement and hydrogen bonding interactions induced by grafted longer polymer brushes, leading to additional energy inputs and weakening the ordering. Significantly, the critical φsilica (φc) of SiO2-g-PBCOE colloidal particles is discerned, strongly influencing the optical properties of the hot-pressed films. Specifically, a hot-pressed SiO2-g-PBCOE film with a critical φsilica of 29.3% displays enhanced optical properties characterized by intensified reflection peaks, narrowed full width at half-maximum (FWHM), and brilliant structural colors. Notably, in this work, we reveal the mechanism of hot-pressing-driven core-shell colloidal particle ordering and the key factors affecting the ordering of colloidal particles, i.e., chain entanglement and hydrogen-bonding interactions, which play a crucial role in obtaining CPCs with controllable structures. Moreover, angle-dependent structural color is observed in the hot-pressed SiO2-g-PBCOE film with a φsilica content of 29.3% due to the unique attributes of the highly ordered arrangement, while the films exhibit mechanochromic properties due to chain entanglement and hydrogen bonding interactions. This work provides valuable insights into the rapid construction of highly ordered CPCs and establishes a solid foundation for external force-assisted ordering of colloidal particles.
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- Xiujuan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology and Key Lab of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion & Storage of Ministry of Education (HUST), School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology and Key Lab of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion & Storage of Ministry of Education (HUST), School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology and Key Lab of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion & Storage of Ministry of Education (HUST), School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology and Key Lab of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion & Storage of Ministry of Education (HUST), School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology and Key Lab of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion & Storage of Ministry of Education (HUST), School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology and Key Lab of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion & Storage of Ministry of Education (HUST), School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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Liang S, Hao J, Gu Z, Pang X, He Y. Regulating Charge Carrier Dynamics in Stable Perovskite Nanorods for Photo-Induced Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2306506. [PMID: 37803459 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202306506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/08/2023]
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Semiconducting nanocrystals have attracted world-wide research interest in artificial photosynthesis due to their appealing properties and enticing potentials in converting solar energy into valuable chemicals. Compared to 0D nanoparticles, 1D nanorods afford long-distance charge carriers separation and extended charge carriers lifetime due to the release of quantum confinement in axial direction. Herein, stable CsPbBr3 nanorods of distinctive dimensions are crafted without altering their properties and morphology via grafting hydrophobic polystyrene (PS) chains through a post-synthesis ligand exchange process. The resulting PS-capped CsPbBr3 nanorods exhibit a series of enhanced stabilities against UV irradiation, elevated temperature, and polar solvent, making them promising candidates for photo-induced atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). Tailoring the surface chemistry and dimension of the PS-capped CsPbBr3 nanorods endows stable, but variable reaction kinetics in the photo-induced ATRP of methyl methacrylate. The trapping-detrapping process of photogenerated charge carriers lead to extended lifetime of charge carriers in lengthened CsPbBr3 nanorods, contributing to a facilitated reaction kinetics of photo-induced ATRP. Therefore, by leveraging such stable PS-capped CsPbBr3 nanorods, the effects of surface chemistry and charge carriers dynamics on its photocatalytic performance are scrutinized, providing fundamental understandings for designing next-generation efficient nanostructured photocatalyst in artificial photosynthesis and solar energy conversion.
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- Shuang Liang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55415-4310, United States
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials, Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials, Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials, Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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- Henan Joint International Research Laboratory of Living Polymerizations and Functional Nanomaterials, Henan Key Laboratory of Advanced Nylon Materials and Application, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
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Cang Y, Sainidou R, Rembert P, Matyjaszewski K, Bockstaller M, Graczykowski B, Fytas G. Architecture Controls Phonon Propagation in All-Solid Brush Colloid Metamaterials. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2023:e2304157. [PMID: 37972268 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202304157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Brillouin light scattering and elastodynamic theory are concurrently used to determine and interpret the hypersonic phonon dispersion relations in brush particle solids as a function of the grafting density with perspectives in optomechanics, heat management, and materials metrology. In the limit of sparse grafting density, the phonon dispersion relations bear similarity to polymer-embedded colloidal assembly structures in which phonon dispersion can be rationalized on the basis of perfect boundary conditions, i.e., isotropic stiffness transitions across the particle interface. In contrast, for dense brush assemblies, more complex dispersion characteristics are observed that imply anisotropic stiffness transition across the particle/polymer interface. This provides direct experimental validation of phonon propagation changes associated with chain conformational transitions in dense particle brush materials. A scaling relation between interface tangential stiffness and crowding of polymer tethers is derived that provides a guideline for chemists to design brush particle materials with tailored phononic dispersion characteristics. The results emphasize the role of interfaces in composite materials systems. Given the fundamental relevance of phonon dispersion to material properties such as thermal transport or mechanical properties, it is also envisioned that the results will spur the development of novel functional hybrid materials.
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- Yu Cang
- School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Zhangwu Road 100, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- Laboratoire Ondes et Milieux Complexes UMR CNRS 6294, UNIHAVRE, Normandie University, 75 rue Bellot, Le Havre, F-76600, France
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- Laboratoire Ondes et Milieux Complexes UMR CNRS 6294, UNIHAVRE, Normandie University, 75 rue Bellot, Le Havre, F-76600, France
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- Chemistry Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 2, Poznan, 61-614, Poland
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH, N. Plastira 100, Heraklion, 70013, Greece
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Kirakosyan A, Lee D, Choi Y, Jung N, Choi J. Poly(styrene sulfonic acid)-Grafted Carbon Black Synthesized by Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28104168. [PMID: 37241908 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28104168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Revised: 05/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Owing to their excellent electrical conductivity and robust mechanical properties, carbon-based nanocomposites are being used in a wide range of applications and devices, such as electromagnetic wave interference shielding, electronic devices, and fuel cells. While several approaches have been developed for synthesizing carbon nanotubes and carbon-black-based polymer nanocomposites, most studies have focused on the simple blending of the carbon material with a polymer matrix. However, this results in uncontrolled interactions between the carbon filler and the polymer chains, leading to the agglomeration of the carbon filler. Herein, we report a new strategy for synthesizing sulfonated polystyrene (PSS)-grafted carbon black nanoparticles (NPs) via surface-initiated atom-transfer radical polymerization. Treatments with O2 plasma and H2O2 result in the effective attachment of the appropriate initiator to the carbon black NPs, thus allowing for the controlled formation of the PSS brushes. The high polymeric processability and desirable mechanical properties of the PSS-grafted carbon black NPs enable them suitable for use in nonfluorinated-hydrocarbon-based polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells, which must exhibit high proton conductivity without interrupting the network of channels consisting of ionic clusters (i.e., sulfonic acid moieties).
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- Artavazd Kirakosyan
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Graduate School of Energy Science and Technology (GEST), Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Graduate School of Energy Science and Technology (GEST), Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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Colloidal Crystal Films with Narrow Reflection Bands by Hot-Pressing of Polymer-Grafted Silica Particles. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:polym14235157. [PMID: 36501554 PMCID: PMC9736521 DOI: 10.3390/polym14235157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Previous reports have shown that colloidal crystal (CC) films with visible Bragg reflection characteristics can be fabricated by the surface modification of monodisperse silica particles (SiPs) with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) chains, followed by hot-pressing at 150 °C. However, the reflection bands of the CC films were very broad due to their relative disordering of SiPs. In this report, we attempted to fabricate the CC films using SiPs surface-modified with poly(n-octyl acrylate) (POA) chains by hot-pressing. When the cast films of POA-grafted SiPs were prepared by hot-pressing at 100 °C, the reflection bands were narrow rather than those of CC films of PMMA-grafted SiPs. This can be ascribed to easy disentanglement of POA chains during the hot-pressing process, thereby enabling the formation of well-ordered CC structures. Moreover, the reflection colors of CC films could be easily tuned by controlling the molecular weight of POA chains grafted on the SiP surface.
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Jhalaria M, Cang Y, Huang Y, Benicewicz B, Kumar SK, Fytas G. Unusual High-Frequency Mechanical Properties of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Melts. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:187801. [PMID: 35594089 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.187801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Revised: 03/20/2022] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Brillouin light spectroscopy is used to measure the elastic moduli of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticle (GNP) melts as a function of chain length at fixed grafting density (0.47 chains/nm^{2}) and nanoparticle radius (8 nm). While the moduli follow a rule of mixtures (Wood's law) for long chains, they display enhanced elasticity and anomalous dissipation for graft chains <100 kDa. GNP melts with long polymers at high σ have a dry zone near the GNP core, surrounded by a region where the grafts can interpenetrate with chain fragments from adjacent GNPs. We propose that the departures from Wood's law for short chains are due to the effectively larger silica volume fraction in the region where sound propagates-this is caused by the short, interpenetrated chain fragments being pushed out of the way. We thus conclude that transport mechanisms (of gas, ions, sound, thermal phonons) in GNP melts are radically different if interpenetrated chain segments can be "pushed out of the way" or not. This provides a facile new means for manipulating the properties of these materials.
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- Mayank Jhalaria
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York 10027, New York, USA
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- School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, 100 Zhangwu Road, Shanghai 200092, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29201, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29201, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York 10027, New York, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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We explore the behavior
of polymer-tethered particles on solid
surfaces using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Segment–segment,
segment–core, and core–core interactions are assumed
to be purely repulsive, while the segment–substrate interactions
are attractive. We analyze changes in the internal structure of single
hairy particles on the surfaces with the increasing strength of the
segment–substrate interactions. For this purpose, we calculate
the density profiles along the x, y, z axes and the mass dipole moments. The adsorbed
hairy particles are found to be symmetrical in a plane parallel to
the substrate but strongly asymmetric in the vertical direction. On
stronger adsorbents, the particle canopies become flattened and the
cores lie closer to the wall. We consider the adsorption of hairy
nanoparticles dispersed in systems of different initial particle densities.
We show how the strength of segment–substrate interactions
affects the structure of the adsorbed phase, the particle–wall
potential of the average force, the excess adsorption isotherms, and
the real adsorption isotherms.
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- Tomasz Staszewski
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin, Poland
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Izor S, Schantz A, Jawaid A, Grabowski C, Dagher T, Koerner H, Park K, Vaia R. Coexistence and Phase Behavior of Solvent–Polystyrene-Grafted Gold Nanoparticle Systems. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Sarah Izor
- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
- UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio 45432, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
- UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio 45432, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
- UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio 45432, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433-7702, United States
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Beyou E, Bourgeat-Lami E. Organic–inorganic hybrid functional materials by nitroxide-mediated polymerization. Prog Polym Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2021.101434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Makinde ZO, van der Heijden NJ, Clyde D, Nam S, Brothers PJ, Malmström J, Granville S, Domigan LJ, McGillivray DJ, Williams DE. Geometric Frustration and Long-Range Ordering Induced by Surface Pressure Oscillation in a Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayer of Magnetic Soft Spheres. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:10150-10158. [PMID: 34384020 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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As a step toward the bottom-up construction of magnonic systems, this paper demonstrates the use of a large-amplitude surface-pressure annealing technique to generate 2-D order in a Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer of magnetic soft spheres comprising a surfactant-encapsulated polyoxometalate. The films show a distorted square lattice interpreted as due to geometric frustration caused by 2-D confinement between soft walls, one being the air interface and the other the aqueous subphase. Hysteresis and relaxation phenomena in the 2-D layers are suggested to be due to folding and time-dependent interpenetration of surfactant chains.
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- Zainab O Makinde
- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, 20 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, 20 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds St., Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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Jhalaria M, Huang Y, Ruzicka E, Tyagi M, Zorn R, Zamponi M, García Sakai V, Benicewicz B, Kumar S. Activated Transport in Polymer Grafted Nanoparticle Melts. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Mayank Jhalaria
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6102, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS-1) and Institute for Biological Information Processing (IBI-8), 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science at MLZ, Lichtenbergstr. 1 85748 Garching, Germany
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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Li TH, Yadav V, Conrad JC, Robertson ML. Effect of Dispersity on the Conformation of Spherical Polymer Brushes. ACS Macro Lett 2021; 10:518-524. [PMID: 35570760 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We show that dispersity (D̵) markedly alters the conformation of spherical polymer brushes. The average lengths (lb) of poly(tert-butyl acrylate) (PtBA) brushes of varying D̵ grafted to nanoparticles were measured using dynamic light scattering. In the semidilute polymer brush (SDPB) regime, the lb of PtBA and polymers from earlier studies of various D̵ could be cleanly collapsed onto a master curve as a function of the scaling variable Nwσ1/3, where Nw is the weight-average degree of polymerization and σ is the grafting density. In the concentrated polymer brush (CPB) regime, however, lb collapsed onto a bifurcated curve as a function of the scaling variable Nwσ1/2, indicating D̵ more strongly affects the average length of brushes with low Nwσ1/2. We propose that the stretching of the stem near the particle surface due to interchain interactions in the CPB regime leads to greater lb in broad dispersity brushes of low but not high Nwσ1/2.
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- Tzu-Han Li
- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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Qian Y, da Silva A, Yu E, Anderson CL, Liu Y, Theis W, Ercius P, Xu T. Crystallization of nanoparticles induced by precipitation of trace polymeric additives. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2767. [PMID: 33986268 PMCID: PMC8119732 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22950-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Orthogonal to guided growth of nanoparticle (NP) crystals using DNA or supramolecules, a trace amount of polymeric impurities (<0.1 wt.%) leads to reproducible, rapid growth of 3D NP crystals in solution and on patterned substrates with high yield. When polymers preferentially precipitate on the NP surfaces, small NP clusters form and serve as nuclei for NP crystal growth in dilute solutions. This precipitation-induced NP crystallization process is applicable for a range of polymers, and the resultant 3-D NP crystals are tunable by varying polymeric additives loading, solvent evaporation rate, and NP size. The present study elucidates how to balance cohesive energy density and NP diffusivity to simultaneously favor nuclei formation energetically and kinetic growth in dilute solutions to rapidly crystalize NPs over multiple length scales. Furthermore, the amount of impurities needed to grow NP crystals (<0.1%) reminds us the importance of fine details to interpret experimental observations in nanoscience.
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- Yiwen Qian
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. .,Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. .,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Hansoge NK, Gupta A, White H, Giuntoli A, Keten S. Universal Relation for Effective Interaction between Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Nitin K. Hansoge
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
- Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Northwestern University, 2205 Tech Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
- Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Northwestern University, 2205 Tech Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
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Li TH, Robertson ML, Conrad JC. Molecular weight and dispersity affect chain conformation and pH-response in weak polyelectrolyte brushes. Polym Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1py01056e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The pH-dependence of the conformation of annealed polyelectrolyte brushes can be tuned by varying the molecular weight distribution, as characterized via weight-average molecular weight and dispersity.
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- Tzu-Han Li
- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
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- William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 77204, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
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- William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 77204, USA
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LaNasa JA, Hickey RJ. Surface-Initiated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: A Method for Synthesizing Polymer-Functionalized Nanoparticles Exhibiting Semicrystalline Properties and Diverse Macromolecular Architectures. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Jacob A. LaNasa
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
- Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
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Sun M, Zhang J, Tang D, Pan J, Kong X. Directed self-assembly structure of a diblock copolymer with homopolymer-grafted particles. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2018.1496247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Minna Sun
- Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- School of Physics and Information Engineering, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Information Engineering, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Information Engineering, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Information Engineering, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Skoulas D, Stuettgen V, Gaul R, Cryan SA, Brayden DJ, Heise A. Amphiphilic Star Polypept(o)ides as Nanomeric Vectors in Mucosal Drug Delivery. Biomacromolecules 2020; 21:2455-2462. [PMID: 32343127 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Mucosal delivery across the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, airways, and buccal epithelia is an attractive mode of therapeutic administration, but the challenge is to overcome the mucus and epithelial barriers. Here, we present degradable star polypept(o)ides capable of permeating both barriers as a promising biomaterial platform for mucosal delivery. Star polypept(o)ides were obtained by the initiation of benzyl-l-glutamate N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) from an 8-arm poly(propyleneimine) (PPI) dendrimer, with subsequent chain extension with sarcosine NCA. The hydrophobic poly(benzyl-l-glutamate) (PBLG) block length was maintained at 20 monomers, while the length of the hydrophilic poly(sarcosine) (PSar) block ranged from 20-640 monomers to produce star polypept(o)ides with increasing hydrophilic: hydrophobic ratios. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images revealed elongated particles of ∼120 nm length, while dynamic light scattering (DLS) provided evidence of a decrease in the size of polymer aggregates in water with increasing poly(sarcosine) block length, with the smallest size obtained for the star PBLG20-b-PSar640. Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugated PBLG20-b-PSar640 permeated artificial mucus and isolated rat mucus, as well as rat intestinal jejunal tissue mounted in Franz diffusion chambers. An apparent permeability coefficient (Papp) of 15.4 ± 3.1 ×10-6 cm/s for FITC-PBLG20-b-PSar640 was calculated from the transepithelial flux obtained with the apical-side addition of 7.5 mg polypept(o)ide to jejunal tissue over 2 h. This Papp could not be accounted for by flux of unconjugated FITC. Resistance to trypsin demonstrated the stability of FITC-labeled polypept(o)ide over 2 h, but enzymatic degradation at the mucus-epithelial interface or during flux could not be ruled out as contributing to the Papp. The absence of any histological damage to the jejunal tissue during the 2 h exposure suggests that the flux was not associated with overt toxicity.
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- Dimitrios Skoulas
- Department of Chemistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephens Green, Dublin D02, Ireland.,Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CURAM), RCSI, Dublin 02 and University College Dublin,Dublin D04, Ireland
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Veterinary Science Centre, Belfield, Dublin D04, Ireland.,Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CURAM), RCSI, Dublin 02 and University College Dublin,Dublin D04, Ireland
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin D02, Ireland
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences and Tissue Engineering Research Group, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin D02, Ireland.,Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CURAM), RCSI, Dublin 02 and University College Dublin,Dublin D04, Ireland.,AMBER, The SFI Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre, RCSI, Dublin D02, Ireland
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Veterinary Science Centre, Belfield, Dublin D04, Ireland.,Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CURAM), RCSI, Dublin 02 and University College Dublin,Dublin D04, Ireland
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- Department of Chemistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephens Green, Dublin D02, Ireland.,Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CURAM), RCSI, Dublin 02 and University College Dublin,Dublin D04, Ireland.,AMBER, The SFI Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre, RCSI, Dublin D02, Ireland
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Sakib N, Koh YP, Huang Y, Mongcopa KIS, Le AN, Benicewicz BC, Krishnamoorti R, Simon SL. Thermal and Rheological Analysis of Polystyrene-Grafted Silica Nanocomposites. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Nazam Sakib
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29201, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29201, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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Wang SY, Fang LF, Matsuyama H. Construction of a stable zwitterionic layer on negatively-charged membrane via surface adsorption and cross-linking. J Memb Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.117766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Lee J, Wang Z, Zhang J, Yan J, Deng T, Zhao Y, Matyjaszewski K, Bockstaller MR. Molecular Parameters Governing the Elastic Properties of Brush Particle Films. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Jaejun Lee
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Das A N, Begam N, Chandran S, Swain A, Sprung M, Basu JK. Thermal stability and dynamics of soft nanoparticle membranes: role of entropy, enthalpy and membrane compressibility. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:1117-1124. [PMID: 31894229 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01946d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Nanoparticle based ultra-thin membranes have been shown to have remarkable mechanical properties while also possessing novel electrical, optical or magnetic properties, which could be controlled by tailoring properties at the level of individual nanoparticles. Since in most cases the ultra-thin membranes are coupled to some substrates, the role of membrane-substrate interactions, apart from nanoparticle-nanoparticle interactions become very crucial in understanding their mechanical and thermal stability, as well as their plethora of applications. However, systematic studies in this direction have been conspicuously absent. Here we report thermal stability and the corresponding microscopic dynamics of polymer supported ultra-thin membranes comprising of self-assembled, ordered grains of polymer grafted nanoparticles having tunable mechanical properties. The initially ordered membranes show distinct pathways for temperature induced disordering depending on membrane flexibility as well as on interfacial entropic and enthalpic interactions with the underlying polymer thin film. We also observe contrasting temperature dependence of microscopic dynamics of these membranes depending on whether the graft polymer-substrate polymer interactions are predominantly entropic or enthalpic in nature. Our results suggest that apart from their varied applications, the soft nanoparticle-polymer hybrid membranes are a playground for rich physics involving subtle entropic and enthalpic effects along with the nanoparticles softness, which eventually determine their thermo-mechanical stability.
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- Nimmi Das A
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
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- Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
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- Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Notkestresse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
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Yi C, Yang Y, Liu B, He J, Nie Z. Polymer-guided assembly of inorganic nanoparticles. Chem Soc Rev 2019; 49:465-508. [PMID: 31845685 DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00725c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of nanoparticle ensembles. Various molecular ligands (e.g., small molecules, DNAs, proteins, and polymers) have been used to assist the organization of inorganic nanoparticles into functional structures at different hierarchical levels. Among others, polymers are particularly attractive for use in nanoparticle assembly, because of the complex architectures and rich functionalities of assembled structures enabled by polymers. Polymer-guided assembly of nanoparticles has emerged as a powerful route to fabricate functional materials with desired mechanical, optical, electronic or magnetic properties for a broad range of applications such as sensing, nanomedicine, catalysis, energy storage/conversion, data storage, electronics and photonics. In this review article, we summarize recent advances in the polymer-guided self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles in both bulk thin films and solution, with an emphasis on the role of polymers in the assembly process and functions of resulting nanostructures. Precise control over the location/arrangement, interparticle interaction, and packing of inorganic nanoparticles at various scales are highlighted.
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- Chenglin Yi
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China and Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China.
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Hansoge NK, Keten S. Effect of Polymer Chemistry on Chain Conformations in Hairy Nanoparticle Assemblies. ACS Macro Lett 2019; 8:1209-1215. [PMID: 35651164 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Matrix-free, polymer-grafted nanoparticles, called hairy nanoparticle assemblies (aHNPs), have proven advantageous over traditional nanocomposites, as good dispersion and structural order can be achieved. Recent studies have shown that conformational changes in the polymer structure can lead to significant enhancements in the mechanical properties of aHNPs. To quantify how polymer chemistry affects the chain conformations in aHNPs, here we present a comparative analysis based on coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. Specifically, we compare the chain conformations in an anisotropic cellulose nanoparticle grafted to four common polymers with distinct chemical groups, fragility, and segmental structures, that is, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polystyrene (PS), polycarbonate (PC), and polybutadiene (PB). We observe that semiflexible glassy polymers such as PMMA and PS have a higher critical chain length (Ncr), the transition point where the polymer conformation changes from concentrated to semidilute brush regime. Flexible rubbery polymers (PB) can overcome the Ncr barrier at relatively lower molecular weights. We have used theoretical scaling laws based on Daoud-Cotton theory to uncover a direct correlation between empirical constants and physical parameters, such as persistence length and monomer excluded volume. Furthermore, we carried out a systematic study to understand the role of backbone rigidity and side-group size of polymer, and it revealed that the backbone rigidity significantly affects Ncr but the side-group size doesn't seem to have an appreciable effect on Ncr. We find that normalization of the monomer radial distribution curves using Ncr and other key molecular parameters collapses the curves for 110 distinct model aHNP systems studied. Our work paves the way for systematic quantification of these molecular design parameters to accelerate the design of polymer-grafted nanoparticle assemblies in combination with universal scaling relationships.
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- Nitin K. Hansoge
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
- Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Northwestern University, 2205 Tech Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
- Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Northwestern University, 2205 Tech Drive, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3109, United States
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Santos P, Cheung TC, Macfarlane RJ. Assembling Ordered Crystals with Disperse Building Blocks. NANO LETTERS 2019; 19:5774-5780. [PMID: 31348659 PMCID: PMC6727666 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Revised: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Conventional colloidal crystallization techniques typically require low dispersity building blocks in order to make ordered particle arrays, resulting in a practical challenge for studying or scaling these materials. Nanoparticles covered in a polymer brush therefore may be predicted to be challenging building blocks in the formation of high-quality particle superlattices, as both the nanoparticle core and polymer brush are independent sources of dispersity in the system. However, when supramolecular bonding between complementary functional groups at the ends of the polymer chains are used to drive particle assembly, these "nanocomposite tectons" can make high quality superlattices with polymer dispersities as large as 1.44 and particle diameter relative standard deviations up to 23% without any significant change to superlattice crystallinity. Here we demonstrate and explain how the flexible and dynamic nature of the polymer chains that comprise the particle brush allows them to deform to accommodate the irregularities in building block size and shape that arise from the inherent dispersity of their constituent components. Incorporating "soft" components into nanomaterials design therefore offers a facile and robust method for maintaining good control over organization when the materials themselves are imperfect.
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Kim D, Sihn MR, Jeon MG, Yuan G, Satija SK, Kim Y, Choi J. Non-Equilibrium Phase Behavior of Immiscible Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Blends. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Deul Kim
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- University of Georgetown, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Electron Microscopy Research Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, 169-148 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34133, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
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Khan AU, Guo Y, Chen X, Liu G. Spectral-Selective Plasmonic Polymer Nanocomposites Across the Visible and Near-Infrared. ACS NANO 2019; 13:4255-4266. [PMID: 30908010 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b09386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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State-of-the-art commercial light-reflecting glass is coated with a metalized film to decrease the transmittance of electromagnetic waves. In addition to the cost of the metalized film, one major limitation of such light-reflecting glass is the lack of spectral selectivity over the entire visible and near-infrared (NIR) spectrum. To address this challenge, we herein effectively harness the transmittance, reflectance, and filtration of any wavelength across the visible and NIR, by judiciously controlling the planar orientation of two-dimensional plasmonic silver nanoplates (AgNPs) in polymer nanocomposites. In contrast to conventional bulk polymer nanocomposites where plasmonic nanoparticles are randomly mixed within a polymer matrix, our thin-film polymer nanocomposites comprise a single layer, or any desired number of multiple layers, of planarly oriented AgNPs separated by tunable spacings. This design employs a minimal amount of metal and yet efficiently manages light across the visible and NIR. The thin-film plasmonic polymer nanocomposites are expected to have a significant impact on spectral-selective light modulation, sensing, optics, optoelectronics, and photonics.
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Hou G, Xia X, Liu J, Wang W, Dong M, Zhang L. Designing Superlattice Structure via Self-Assembly of One-Component Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:2157-2168. [PMID: 30742436 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b11118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The control of the self-assembly of the nanocrystals into ordered structures has been extensively investigated, but fewer efforts have been devoted to studying one-component polymer-grafted nanoparticles (OPNPs). Herein, through coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation, we design a novel nanoparticle (NP) grafted with polymer chains, focusing on its self-assembled structures. First, we examine the effects of length and density of grafted polymer chains by calculating the radial distribution function between NPs, as well as through direct visualization. We observe a monotonic change of the arranged morphology of grafted-NPs as a function of the density of grafted polymer chains, which indicates that the increase of the grafting density contributes to the order of the morphology. Meanwhile, we find that much longer grafted polymer chains worsen the regularity of the morphology. Then, we probe the influence of the stiffness of grafted polymer chains (denoted by K ranging from 0 to 500) on the order of grafted-NPs, finding that the order of the structure exhibits a nonmonotonic behavior as a function of K at moderate grafting density. For high grafting density, the order of the morphology is initially enhanced and becomes saturated as a function of K. For the effect of K on the stress-strain behavior, the system with the lowest order demonstrates the most remarkable reinforced mechanical behavior for both low and high grafting density. Last, we establish the phase diagram by varying the stiffness and density of the grafted polymer chains, which contains the amorphous, ordered, and superlattice structures, respectively. In general, our simulated results provide guidelines to tailor the self-assembly of the OPNPs by taking advantage of the length, density, and stiffness of grafted polymer chains.
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- Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , 62 Nanyang Drive , 637459 , Singapore
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Grafting polymers to nanoparticle surfaces influences properties from the conformation of the polymer chains to the dispersion and assembly of nanoparticles within a polymeric material. Recently, a small body of work has begun to address the question of how grafting polymers to a nanoparticle surface impacts chain dynamics, and the resulting physical properties of a material. This Review discusses recent work that characterizes the structure and dynamics of polymers that are grafted to nanoparticles and opportunities for future research. Starting from the case of a single polymer chain attached to a nanoparticle core, this Review follows the structure of the chains as grafting density increases, and how this structure slows relaxation of polymer chains and affects macroscopic material properties.
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- Michael J A Hore
- Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, USA.
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Koga S, Inasawa S. Packing structures and formation of cracks in particulate films obtained by drying colloid–polymer suspensions. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2018.11.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Eygeris Y, White EV, Wang Q, Carpenter JE, Grünwald M, Zharov I. Responsive Nanoporous Membranes with Size Selectivity and Charge Rejection from Self-Assembly of Polyelectrolyte "Hairy" Nanoparticles. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:3407-3416. [PMID: 30589251 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b17483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report the preparation and characterization of charged nanoporous membranes by self-assembly of "hairy" silica nanoparticles (HNPs) functionalized with polyelectrolyte copolymer brushes. We show that HNP membranes possess high water flux, have well-defined pore sizes, and rejection up to 80% of charged species in solution. The properties of these membranes can be tuned by controlling the length and composition of polymer brushes and the electrolyte concentration in solution. We demonstrate that membrane pore sizes undergo changes of up to 40% in response to changes in the ionic strength of the salt solution. Using MD computer simulations of a coarse-grained model, we link these tunable properties to the conformations of polymer chains in the spaces between randomly packed HNPs. As polymer length increases, the polymers fill the interparticle gaps, and the pore size decreases markedly. On the basis of their straightforward fabrication and tunable properties, HNP membranes may find applications in size- and charge-selective separations, water desalination, and responsive devices.
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- A. M. Butlerov Chemistry Institute , Kazan Federal University , 18 Kremlyovskaya Street , Kazan 420008 , Russia
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Preparation of Ag2Se QDs with excellent aqueous dispersion stability by organic coating with aqueous ATRP. Polym Bull (Berl) 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00289-018-2627-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Ethier JG, Hall LM. Structure and Entanglement Network of Model Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Monolayers. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Jeffrey G. Ethier
- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Lenart WR, Hore MJ. Structure–property relationships of polymer-grafted nanospheres for designing advanced nanocomposites. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoso.2017.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Wang SY, Fang LF, Cheng L, Jeon S, Kato N, Matsuyama H. Improved antifouling properties of membranes by simple introduction of zwitterionic copolymers via electrostatic adsorption. J Memb Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.07.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Jiao Y, Tibbits A, Gillman A, Hsiao MS, Buskohl P, Drummy LF, Vaia RA. Deformation Behavior of Polystyrene-Grafted Nanoparticle Assemblies with Low Grafting Density. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Yang Jiao
- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, United States
- UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio 45432, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, United States
- UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio 45432, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, United States
- UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio 45432, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, United States
- UES, Inc., Dayton, Ohio 45432, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, United States
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- Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, Ohio 45433, United States
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Hansoge NK, Huang T, Sinko R, Xia W, Chen W, Keten S. Materials by Design for Stiff and Tough Hairy Nanoparticle Assemblies. ACS NANO 2018; 12:7946-7958. [PMID: 29975847 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Matrix-free polymer-grafted nanocrystals, called assembled hairy nanoparticles (aHNPs), can significantly enhance the thermomechanical performance of nanocomposites by overcoming nanoparticle dispersion challenges and achieving stronger interfacial interactions through grafted polymer chains. However, effective strategies to improve both the mechanical stiffness and toughness of aHNPs are lacking given the general conflicting nature of these two properties and the large number of molecular parameters involved in the design of aHNPs. Here, we propose a computational framework that combines multiresponse Gaussian process metamodeling and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to establish design strategies for achieving optimal mechanical properties of aHNPs within a parametric space. Taking poly(methyl methacrylate) grafted to high-aspect-ratio cellulose nanocrystals as a model nanocomposite, our multiobjective design optimization framework reveals that the polymer chain length and grafting density are the main influencing factors governing the mechanical properties of aHNPs, in comparison to the nanoparticle size and the polymer-nanoparticle interfacial interactions. In particular, the Pareto frontier, that marks the upper bound of mechanical properties within the design parameter space, can be achieved when the weight percentage of nanoparticles is above around 60% and the grafted chains exceed the critical length scale governing transition into the semidilute brush regime. We show that theoretical scaling relationships derived from the Daoud-Cotton model capture the dependence of the critical length scale on graft density and nanoparticle size. Our established modeling framework provides valuable insights into the mechanical behavior of these hairy nanoparticle assemblies at the molecular level and allows us to establish guidelines for nanocomposite design.
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- Nitin K Hansoge
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Northern Illinois University , 590 Garden Road , DeKalb , Illinois 60115 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , North Dakota State University , 1410 14th Avenue N , Fargo , North Dakota 58105 , United States
- Center for Hierarchical Materials Design , Northwestern University , 2205 Tech Drive , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
- Center for Hierarchical Materials Design , Northwestern University , 2205 Tech Drive , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering , Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
- Center for Hierarchical Materials Design , Northwestern University , 2205 Tech Drive , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , Northwestern University , 2145 Sheridan Road , Evanston , Illinois 60208-3109 , United States
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Wei Y, Xu Y, Faraone A, Hore MJA. Local Structure and Relaxation Dynamics in the Brush of Polymer-Grafted Silica Nanoparticles. ACS Macro Lett 2018; 7:699-704. [PMID: 35632950 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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When grafted to spherical nanoparticles at high grafting densities, polymers adopt a variety of conformations. Because of strong confinement by neighboring chains, portions of the polymer near the nanoparticle core are highly stretched in the concentrated polymer brush region (CPB) of the polymer layer. Farther away from the core, where the polymer is less confined, the conformation becomes more ideal in the semidilute polymer brush (SDPB) region. Using a combination of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and neutron spin echo (NSE) spectroscopy, we directly characterized both the structure and dynamics of the CPB and SDPB on poly(methyl acrylate) (PMA) grafted SiO2 nanoparticles (NPs). Analysis of SANS measurements using a new core-chain-chain (CCC) model confirmed that the portion of the chain in the CPB region is highly stretched, and transitions to a more random conformation. Dynamics in the CPB region were found to be much slower than the SDPB region.
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- Yuan Wei
- Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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Liu S, Wang H, Akcora P. Ordering Polymer‐Grafted Nanoparticles at Oil–Air Interfaces under Magnetic Fields. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201800012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Siqi Liu
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Castle Point on Hudson Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken NJ 07030 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Castle Point on Hudson Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken NJ 07030 USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Castle Point on Hudson Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken NJ 07030 USA
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Nakanishi Y, Ishige R, Ogawa H, Sakakibara K, Ohno K, Morinaga T, Sato T, Kanaya T, Tsujii Y. USAXS analysis of concentration-dependent self-assembling of polymer-brush-modified nanoparticles in ionic liquid: [I] concentrated-brush regime. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:124902. [PMID: 29604836 DOI: 10.1063/1.5017552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Using ultra-small angle X-ray scattering (USAXS), we analyzed the higher-order structures of nanoparticles with a concentrated brush of an ionic liquid (IL)-type polymer (concentrated-polymer-brush-modified silica particle; PSiP) in an IL and the structure of the swollen shell layer of PSiP. Homogeneous mixtures of PSiP and IL were successfully prepared by the solvent-casting method involving the slow evaporation of a volatile solvent, which enabled a systematic study over an exceptionally wide range of compositions. Different diffraction patterns as a function of PSiP concentration were observed in the USAXS images of the mixtures. At suitably low PSiP concentrations, the USAXS intensity profile was analyzed using the Percus-Yevick model by matching the contrast between the shell layer and IL, and the swollen structure of the shell and "effective diameter" of the PSiP were evaluated. This result confirms that under sufficiently low pressures below and near the liquid/crystal-threshold concentration, the studied PSiP can be well described using the "hard sphere" model in colloidal science. Above the threshold concentration, the PSiP forms higher-order structures. The analysis of diffraction patterns revealed structural changes from disorder to random hexagonal-closed-packing and then face-centered-cubic as the PSiP concentration increased. These results are discussed in terms of thermodynamically stable "hard" and/or "semi-soft" colloidal crystals, wherein the swollen layer of the concentrated polymer brush and its structure play an important role.
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- Yohei Nakanishi
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-E4-5 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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- Department of Creative Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College, 104 Sawada, Inooka, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-8511, Japan
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- Department of Creative Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College, 104 Sawada, Inooka, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-8511, Japan
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- J-PARC, Material and Life Science Division, Institute of Material Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 203-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Yang G, Kim K, Wang W, Chen B, Mattoussi H, Hallinan DT. Scaling Laws for Polymer Chains Grafted onto Nanoparticles. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201700417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Guang Yang
- Aero‐Propulsion, Mechatronics, and Energy Center Florida State University 2003 Levy Avenue Tallahassee FL 32310 USA
- Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department FAMU‐FSU College of Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street Tallahassee FL 32310 USA
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- Aero‐Propulsion, Mechatronics, and Energy Center Florida State University 2003 Levy Avenue Tallahassee FL 32310 USA
- Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department FAMU‐FSU College of Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street Tallahassee FL 32310 USA
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- Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Florida State University 95 Chieftan Way Tallahassee FL 32306‐4390 USA
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- Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Florida State University 95 Chieftan Way Tallahassee FL 32306‐4390 USA
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- Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Florida State University 95 Chieftan Way Tallahassee FL 32306‐4390 USA
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- Aero‐Propulsion, Mechatronics, and Energy Center Florida State University 2003 Levy Avenue Tallahassee FL 32310 USA
- Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department FAMU‐FSU College of Engineering 2525 Pottsdamer Street Tallahassee FL 32310 USA
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Schulz F, Tober S, Lange H. Size-Dependent Phase Transfer Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles To Promote Well-Ordered Self-Assembly. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:14437-14444. [PMID: 29192781 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We present a route for the functionalization of gold nanoparticles (AuNP) based on phase transfer functionalization in order to optimize the stability and the potential for self-assembly. Depending on the desired size, different ligand exchanges have to be employed: The maximum AuNP size that can be stabilized without concentration loss is 46 nm for polystyrene-based ligands with 5 and 10 kDa. Small particles <12 nm are better stabilized by smaller ligands. We are able to demonstrate that well-ordered close-packed monolayers of 28 nm AuNP covering at least 400 μm2 are possible with a potential for much larger areas. Such monolayers are of great interest for various fundamental experiments in the context of plasmonics and SERS and for sensor applications.
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- Florian Schulz
- Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg , Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg , Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg , Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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Ginzburg VV. Modeling the Morphology and Phase Behavior of One-Component Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Systems. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Valeriy V. Ginzburg
- Materials Science and Engineering, The Dow Chemical Company, Building 1702, Midland, Michigan 48674, United States
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Zhang H, Wang W, Akinc M, Mallapragada S, Travesset A, Vaknin D. Assembling and ordering polymer-grafted nanoparticles in three dimensions. NANOSCALE 2017; 9:8710-8715. [PMID: 28616945 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr00787f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Taking advantage of the aqueous biphasic behavior of polyethylene glycol (PEG)/salts, recent experiments have demonstrated self-assembly and crystallization of PEG-grafted gold nanoparticles (PEG-AuNPs) into tunable two-dimensional (2D) supercrystals by adjusting salt concentration (for instance, K2CO3). In those studies, combined experimental evidence and theoretical analysis have pointed out the possibility that similar strategies can lead to three-dimensional (3D) formation of ordered nanoparticle precipitates. Indeed, a detailed small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) study reported herein reveals the spontaneous formation of PEG-AuNPs assemblies in high-concentration salt solutions that exhibit short-range 3D order compatible with fcc symmetry. We argue that the assembly into fcc crystals is driven by partnering nearest-neighbors to minimize an effective surface-tension gradient at the boundary between the polymer shell and the high-salt media. We report SAXS and other results on PEG-AuNPs of various Au core diameters in the range of 10 to 50 nm and analyze them in the framework of brush-polymer theory revealing a systematic prediction of the nearest-neighbor distance in the 3D assemblies.
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- Honghu Zhang
- Ames Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
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Lang X, Lenart WR, Sun JEP, Hammouda B, Hore MJA. Interaction and Conformation of Aqueous Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) Star Polymers below the LCST. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Xiaolong Lang
- Department
of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Department
of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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- Laurel School, One Lyman
Circle, Shaker
Heights, Ohio 44122, United States
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- NIST Center for
Neutron Research, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department
of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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Zoppe JO, Ataman NC, Mocny P, Wang J, Moraes J, Klok HA. Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: State-of-the-Art, Opportunities, and Challenges in Surface and Interface Engineering with Polymer Brushes. Chem Rev 2017; 117:1105-1318. [PMID: 28135076 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 587] [Impact Index Per Article: 83.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical properties of interfaces and has given rise to great advances in surface and interface engineering. Polymer brushes are defined as thin polymer films in which the individual polymer chains are tethered by one chain end to a solid interface. Significant advances have been made over the past years in the field of polymer brushes. This includes novel developments in SI-CRP, as well as the emergence of novel applications such as catalysis, electronics, nanomaterial synthesis and biosensing. Additionally, polymer brushes prepared via SI-CRP have been utilized to modify the surface of novel substrates such as natural fibers, polymer nanofibers, mesoporous materials, graphene, viruses and protein nanoparticles. The last years have also seen exciting advances in the chemical and physical characterization of polymer brushes, as well as an ever increasing set of computational and simulation tools that allow understanding and predictions of these surface-grafted polymer architectures. The aim of this contribution is to provide a comprehensive review that critically assesses recent advances in the field and highlights the opportunities and challenges for future work.
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- Justin O Zoppe
- Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Station 12 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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