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Helical packing of nanoparticles confined in cylindrical domains of a self-assembled block copolymer structure

  • Sunita Sanwaria
  • , Andriy Horechyy*
  • , Daniel Wolf
  • , Che Yi Chu
  • , Hsin Lung Chen
  • , Petr Formanek
  • , Manfred Stamm
  • , Rajiv Srivastava
  • , Bhanu Nandan
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  • Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden
  • Technische Universität Dresden
  • National Tsing Hua University

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Abstract

Theoretical models predict that a variety of self-assembled structures of closely packed spherical particles may result when they are confined in a cylindrical domain. In the present work we demonstrate for the first time that the polymer-coated nanoparticles confined in the self-assembled cylindrical domains of a block copolymer pack in helical morphology, where we can isolate individual fibers filled with helically arranged nanoparticles. This finding provides unique possibilities for fundamental as well as application-oriented research in similar directions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9090-9093
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume53
Issue number34
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 08 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • block copolymers
  • helical packing
  • nanoobjects
  • nanoparticles
  • self-assembly

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