TY - JOUR
T1 - Functionalization of Planet-Satellite Nanostructures Revealed by Nanoscopic Localization of Distinct Macromolecular Species
AU - Rossner, Christian
AU - Roddatis, Vladimir
AU - Lopatin, Sergei
AU - Vana, Philipp
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft[VA226-10/1]
PY - 2016/9/26
Y1 - 2016/9/26
N2 - The development of a straightforward method is reported to form hybrid polymer/gold planet-satellite nanostructures (PlSNs) with functional polymer. Polyacrylate type polymer with benzyl chloride in its backbone as a macromolecular tracer is synthesized to study its localization within PlSNs by analyzing the elemental distribution of chlorine. The functionalized nanohybrid structures are analyzed by scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, and spectrum imaging. The results show that the RAFT (reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer) polymers' sulfur containing end groups are colocalized at the gold cores, both within nanohybrids of simple core-shell morphology and within higher order PlSNs, providing microscopic evidence for the affinity of the RAFT group toward gold surfaces. © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA., Weinheim.
AB - The development of a straightforward method is reported to form hybrid polymer/gold planet-satellite nanostructures (PlSNs) with functional polymer. Polyacrylate type polymer with benzyl chloride in its backbone as a macromolecular tracer is synthesized to study its localization within PlSNs by analyzing the elemental distribution of chlorine. The functionalized nanohybrid structures are analyzed by scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, and spectrum imaging. The results show that the RAFT (reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer) polymers' sulfur containing end groups are colocalized at the gold cores, both within nanohybrids of simple core-shell morphology and within higher order PlSNs, providing microscopic evidence for the affinity of the RAFT group toward gold surfaces. © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA., Weinheim.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621393
UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/marc.201600480
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84988872459&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/marc.201600480
DO - 10.1002/marc.201600480
M3 - Article
C2 - 27717056
SN - 1022-1336
VL - 37
SP - 1742
EP - 1747
JO - Macromolecular Rapid Communications
JF - Macromolecular Rapid Communications
IS - 21
ER -