Highly crystalline sphere and rod-shaped TiO 2 nanoparticles: A facile route to bio-polymer grafting

A Facile and Green Synthesis Route for the Production of Silver Nanoparticles in Large Scale

   In the present work, a fast, green and simple synthesis method for the production of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) is introduced. Silver nanoparticles are currently among the most widely used man-made nano materials, present in a wide range of consumer products. Green chemistry is characterized by careful planning of chemical synthesis of silver nanoparticles to reduce adverse outcomes. S...

Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles in Bio- Sensing and Bio-Imaging

A facile synthetic route to novel thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers and characterization of their mesophases

A novel method for the synthesis of a new class of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers has been developed: it proceeds via a polyaddition reaction involving diepoxy-containing mesogene groups and a monoamine (aniline). The reaction between the epoxy ring and the primary amine produces an intermediate containing a secondary amine which undergoes further reaction with an epoxy ring of anothe...

Robust Route to Unimolecular Core−Shell and Hollow Polymer Nanoparticles

Unimolecular core−shell and hollow polymer nanoparticles with well-defined dimensions were crafted using spherical core−shell starlike diblock copolymers as templates. Monodisperse and structurally stable star-like diblock copolymers composed of inner degradable core blocks and outer photo-cross-linkable shell blocks were synthesized via a combination of two living polymerization techniques, na...

Facile synthesis of polymer and carbon spheres decorated with highly dispersed metal nanoparticles.

Metal nanoparticle-decorated carbon spheres (mn-CSs) are prepared by combining one-pot hydrothermal synthesis and post-synthesis modification. The former sol-gel type process is employed to obtain heteroatom-containing polymer spheres (PSs), which easily attract metal species that, during thermal treatment, are initially converted to nanoparticle-decorated PSs and finally to mn-CSs.