Core鈥揅orona Functionalization of Diblock Copolymer Micelles by Heterogeneous Metal Nanoparticles for Dual Modality in Chemical Reactions

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• 作者：Seong Ho Jo ; Hyun Woo Kim ; Minkyung Song ; Nam Jin Je ; Sung-hoon Oh ; Byoung-Yong Chang ; Jinhwan Yoon ; Joo Hyun Kim ; Bonghoon Chung ; Seong Il Yoo
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 26, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：7
• 期：33
• 页码：18778-18785
• 全文大小：440K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

Nanoscale assemblies composed of different types of nanoparticles (NPs) can reveal interesting aspects about material properties beyond the functions of individual constituent NPs. This research direction may also represent current challenges in nanoscience toward practical applications. With respect to the assembling method, synthetic or biological nanostructures can be utilized to organize heterogeneous NPs in specific sites via chemical or physical interactions. However, those assembling methods often encounter uncontrollable particle aggregation or phase separation. In this study, we anticipated that the self-segregating properties of block copolymer micelles could be particularly useful for organizing heterogeneous NPs, because the presence of chemically distinct domains such as the core and the corona can facilitate the selective placement of constituent NPs in separate domains. Here, we simultaneously functionalized the core and the corona of micelles by Au NPs and Ag NPs, which exhibited plasmonic and catalytic functions, respectively. Our primary question is whether these plasmonic and catalytic functions can be combined in the assembled structures to engineer the kinetics of a model chemical reaction. To test this hypothesis, the catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol was selected to evaluate the collective properties of the micellar assemblies in a chemical reaction.