Polymer nanocomposites containing metals have been used in a wide range of applications due to their versatility, and tunable characteristics including physical, chemical, biological and mechanical properties. In this research work polystyrene-silver nanocomposite has been produced using polymerization of a w/o microemulsion system. Styrene monomer was used as the oil or continues phase of the ...

The main objective of this work is to analyze how the cellular structure foamed polystyrene based (PS) nanocomposites, produced by gas dissolution foaming, affected extensional rheological behavior polymer matrix and dispersion degree particles. These composites have been with different types natural organomodified sepiolites contents these were characterized shear dynamic rheology, respectivel...

Rapid and precise doping of mesoporous silica beads has been achieved with luminescent quantum dots, leading to 1-2 orders of magnitude improvements over the results previously achieved with polystyrene latex beads. A surprising finding is that multivalent hydrophobic interactions provide a strong driving force for efficient partitioning and immobilization of surfactant-coated quantum dots in t...

Nanotechnology enables development and production of novel silver-based composite materials. We used in vitro tests to demonstrate the antimicrobial activity of a silver-silica nanocomposite compared to the activities of conventional materials, such as silver nitrate and silver zeolite. A silver-silica-containing polystyrene material was manufactured and shown to possess strong antimicrobial pr...

Using N,N-dimethylacetalamide (DMAc) as the suspension media of polystyrene (PS) and poly[styrene-co-(4-vinyl-pyridin)] (PSVP) nanoparticles, insitu condensation polymerization of dianhydride and diamine was carried out and homogenous polyamic acid solution containing the nanoparticles were obtained. Novel PMDA-ODA nanocomposite membranes with various contents of nanoparticles were prepared by ...

Magnetic properties of nanocomposite materials obtained by dispersing barium ferrite nanoparticles within polystyrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer, in the temperature range, 300 to 500 K are reported. The temperature dependence of the magnetization at saturation, averaged uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy, and coercive field of thick films are analyzed. A "matrix effect" was noticed w...

A new type of nanocomposite hydrogels based on covalent cross-linked interactions with excellent mechanical properties and good stability has been prepared by using in situ free-radical polymerization; polystyrene nanoparticles with photo-activity are used as the cross-linking agent.

A facile approach of making scalable nanocomposite and electro-patterned films using graphene oxide (GO) and poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK) is reported. The method involves the layering of polystyrene colloidal templates, electrodeposition of the composite film on template array, and finally removal of the sacrificial templates to reveal the patterned GO-PVK arrays.