General Synthesis of Ultrafine Monodispersed Hybrid Nanoparticles from Highly Stable Monomicelles
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Wang, Xiao
Jing, Xinxin
Zhao, Yujuan
Lan, Kun
Zhang, Wei
Duan, Linlin
Guo, Dingyi
Wang, Changyao
Peng, Liang
Zhang, Xingmiao
An, Zesheng
Li, Wei
Nie, Zhihong
Fan, Chunhai
Zhao, Dongyuan
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Ultrafine nanoparticles with organic-inorganic hybridization have essential roles in myriad applications. Over the past three decades, although various efforts on the formation of organic or inorganic ultrasmall nanoparticles have been made, ultrafine organic-inorganic hybrid nanoparticles have scarcely been achieved. Herein, a family of ultrasmall hybrid nanoparticles with a monodisperse, uniform size is synthesized by a facile thermo-kinetics-mediated copolymer monomicelle approach. These thermo-kinetics-mediated monomicelles with amphiphilic ABC triblock copolymers are structurally robust due to their solidified polystyrene core, endowing them with ultrahigh thermodynamic stability, which is difficult to achieve using Pluronic surfactant-based micelles (e.g., F127). This great stability combined with a core-shell-corona structure makes the monodispersed monomicelles a robust template for the precise synthesis of ultrasmall hybrid nanoparticles with a highly uniform size. As a demonstration, the obtained micelles/SiO2 hybrid nanoparticles display ultrafine sizes, excellent uniformity, monodispersity, and tunable structural parameters (diameters: 24-47 nm and thin shell thickness: 2.0-4.0 nm). Notably, this approach is universal for creating a variety of multifunctional ultrasmall hybrid nanostructures, involving organic/organic micelle/polymers (polydopamine) nanoparticles, organic/inorganic micelle/metal oxides (ZnO, TiO2 , Fe2 O3 ), micelle/hydroxides (Co(OH)2 ), micelle/noble metals (Ag), and micelle/TiO2 /SiO2 hybrid composites. As a proof of concept, the ultrasmall micelle/SiO2 hybrid nanoparticles demonstrate superior toughness as biomimetic materials.
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Physical sciences
Chemical sciences
Engineering
biomimetic materials
monodispersity
monomicelles
organic-inorganic hybrids
superior toughness
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Zhao, Z; Wang, X; Jing, X; Zhao, Y; Lan, K; Zhang, W; Duan, L; Guo, D; Wang, C; Peng, L; Zhang, X; An, Z; Li, W; Nie, Z; Fan, C; Zhao, D, General Synthesis of Ultrafine Monodispersed Hybrid Nanoparticles from Highly Stable Monomicelles., Adv Mater, 2021