Synthesis and fabrication of multifunctional nanocomposites: Stable dispersions of nanoparticles tethered with short, dense and polydisperse polymer brushes in poly(methyl methacrylate)

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 3614-3624

  Wong, Minhao ^b   Guenther, Johannes ^b   Sun, Luyi ^c   Blümel, Janet ^b   Nishimura, Riichi ^d   Sue, Hung Jue ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Texas State University   (United States)

^d KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

colloids; hybrid materials; quantum dots; structure property relationships; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PARAMETER; ENERGY BANDGAPS; FINE DISPERSIONS; FUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES; GENERAL APPROACH; GRAFT DENSITY; GRAFTED POLYMERS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; MATRIX POLYMERS; MELT-PROCESSABLE; MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOCOMPOSITES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) MATRIX; POLYDISPERSE POLYMERS; POLYMER BRUSHES; POLYMER INTERACTIONS; POLYMER LENGTH; POLYMER-GRAFTED NANOPARTICLES; RADICAL COPOLYMERIZATION; STABLE DISPERSIONS; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; SYNTHESIS METHOD; TUNABILITIES; ZNO QUANTUM DOTS;

BRUSHES; COLLOIDS; DISPERSIONS; ESTERS; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HYBRID MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYDISPERSITY; POLYMER MELTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 84865788686     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201200083     Document Type: Article

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