Chemically Functionalized Nanoparticles: Tailored Ligand Chemistry for Integration of Nanoparticles into Polymer Materials and Functional Assemblies

有了这个奖项，有机和高分子化学计划正在支持马萨诸塞州大学聚合物科学工程系的托德埃姆里克教授的研究。 该项目的重点是开发化学策略，通过将聚合物链连接到纳米颗粒表面，使纳米颗粒与聚合物材料相容。 该技术允许颗粒在塑料、泡沫或橡胶材料中自由混合，从而使纳米颗粒和聚合物之间能够充分利用任何给定材料中每个组分的特性。 该项目的成功将改变当今的纳米颗粒聚合物技术，并在发光器件、光伏材料和聚合物涂层等领域带来进步。 研究生和本科生将在这个项目上协同工作，他们的成果有助于基础科学，有针对性的技术，以及创新的跨学科课程，这是在马萨诸塞州大学在纳米科学和纳米技术领域的发展。

With this award, the Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry Program is supporting the research of Professor Todd Emrick of the Polymer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts. The project is focused on developing chemical strategies that render nanoparticles compatible with polymer materials by attachment of polymer chains to the nanoparticle surface. This technique allows the particles to mix freely within plastics, foams, or rubbery materials enabling a communication between the nanoparticles and polymers that takes full advantage of the properties of each component in any given material. Success in the project will alter today's nanoparticle-polymer technologies and bring about advances in areas that include light-emitting devices, photovoltaic materials, and polymer coatings. Graduate and undergraduate students will work in concert on this project, with their results contributing to fundamental science, targeted technologies, and an innovative interdisciplinary curriculum that is developing at the University of Massachusetts in the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.