Nanoparticle and Nanoparticulate Film Construction in Membrane-Mimetic Systems

有机动力学计划的这项资助支持了锡拉丘兹大学的芬德勒教授的膜模拟研究。研究的重点是金属和半导体纳米粒子和薄膜在水溶液中，在表面活性剂囊泡，在水单分子膜，并在空气-水界面的制备和表征。研究还将进行转移的纳米粒子和薄膜到固体基板上，以及在朗缪尔-布洛杰特膜的头基之间的掺入。不同的系统将通过各种物理化学技术进行原位和非原位表征，其中包括原子力显微镜。 在这个项目中，Fendler博士将进行膜模拟研究，目的是在水介质和囊泡中制备和表征金属，磁性和半导体纳米颗粒和薄膜。这些调查将提供急需的和必要的信息，为发展一个“湿胶体化学”的方法，以建设先进的材料。

This grant from the Organic Dynamics Program supports the membrane-mimetic studies of Professor Fendler at Syracuse University. The studies focus on the preparation and characterization of metallic and semiconducting nanoparticles and films in aqueous solutions, in surfactant vesicles, under aqueous monolayers, and at air-water interfaces. Studies will also be conducted on the transfer of the nanoparticles and films onto solid substrates as well as on the incorporation between headgroups of Langmuir-Blodgett films. The different systems will be characterized in and ex situ by a variety of physico-chemical techniques amongst which atomic force microscopy. In this project Dr. Fendler will conduct membrane- mimetic studies aimed at the preparation and characterization of metallic, magnetic, and semiconducting nanoparticles and films in aqueous media and vesicles. These investigations will provide the much needed and necessary information for the development of a "wet colloid-chemical" approach to the construction of advanced materials.