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Nanoparticles in the right place

Nature Materials volume 8, pages 926–928 (2009)Cite this article

Hybrid materials based on block copolymers and nanoparticles are a promising class of nanocomposites. Tailoring the block copolymer properties by using supramolecular chemistry allows control of the particle spatial organization and resulting composite properties.

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Figure 1: Transmission electron microscopy images of blends of diblock copolymer/surfactant complexes and nanoparticles1.
Figure 2: Combining methods used to form hybrid materials based on assemblies of polymers, surfactants and nanoparticles could lead to the control of nanoparticle spacing at length scales of 1–100 nm.

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  1. Raffaele Mezzenga is at the ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland raffaele.mezzenga@agrl.ethz.ch,

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  2. Janne Ruokolainen is at the Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo FI-02150, Finland. janne.ruokolainen@tkk.fi,

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Mezzenga, R., Ruokolainen, J. Nanoparticles in the right place. Nature Mater 8, 926–928 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2576

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