Internal Morphology-Controllable Self-Assembly in Poly(Ionic Liquid) Nanoparticles.

Autor: Zhang W; Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., Kochovski Z; Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie , Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany., Lu Y; Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie , Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany., Schmidt BV; Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., Antonietti M; Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , D-14476 Potsdam, Germany., Yuan J; Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , D-14476 Potsdam, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: ACS nano [ACS Nano] 2016 Aug 23; Vol. 10 (8), pp. 7731-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Aug 10.
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03135
Abstrakt: Precise control of the interior and outer shapes of polymer nanoparticles has found broad interest in nanosciences, for example, in fundamental studies of their physical properties, colloidal behavior, and corresponding applications. Realizing such control below the 50 nm scale (i.e., a size scale close to individual polymer chains) requires accurate manipulation of polymerization techniques and a judicious choice of the chemical structure in monomers and/or polymers. Here, we constructed a series of well-defined sub-50 nm homopolymer nanoparticles with controllable shape and highly ordered, complex internal structures with sub-5 nm domain spacings, starting from 1-vinyl-1,2,4-triazolium-type ionic liquids in a one-pot dispersion polymerization. With cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography, a morphological evolution of particle shape and interior at this extremely small size end, unusual for polymer colloids, was identified and investigated in detail.
Databáze: MEDLINE