Abstract
A facile method for in situ anchoring of gold nanoparticles onto the surface of polymer nanospheres was successfully developed in this study. As polymer nanospheres, amphiphilic poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/poly(allylamine) (PAA) nanospheres were prepared by graft copolymerization of methyl methacrylate from PAA. The gold nanoparticles anchored were spherically symmetric and the average sizes were ∼12 nm for all samples. It was found that surface-grafted PAA effectively anchored and stabilized gold nanoparticles for a long period of time.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5053-5056 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Polymer |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 7 Aug 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Gold nanoparticles
- Poly(allylamine)
- Poly(methyl methacrylate) nanospheres