Functional Assemblies of Block Copolymers and Polymer-Stabilized Nanoparticles

对用于光子学、信号处理、生物成像和传感的先进材料的需求促使越来越多的研究领域在纳米尺度上调整材料的性质。嵌段共聚物是一种人工合成的分子，具有自组织成各种形态的复杂胶体结构的显著倾向，包括胶束和囊泡。金属和半导体纳米粒子是各种纳米结构材料的构建块，由于其独特的光学和电学性质，可以随着尺寸的变化而调整，因此是令人兴奋的候选粒子。对于器件和先进材料的应用，控制纳米粒子和嵌段共聚物在聚合物和纳米复合材料中的组装是一个关键的挑战。

The need for advanced materials for photonics, signal processing, biological imaging, and sensing has spurred a growing field of research into tuning material properties at the nano-scale. Block copolymers are synthetic molecules with a remarkable tendency to self-organize into complex colloidal structures of various morphologies, including micelles and vesicles. Metallic and semiconductor nanoparticles are exciting candidates as building blocks for a diverse range of nanostructured materials, due to unique optical and electronic properties that can be tuned as a function of size. For applications in devices and advanced materials, controlling the assembly of nanoparticles and block copolymers in polymeric and nanocomposite materials is a critical challenge.