Self-assembly of colloidal polymers from two-patch silica nanoparticles

Weiya Li; Bin Liu; Céline Hubert; Adeline Perro; Etienne Duguet; Serge Ravaine

doi:10.1007/s12274-020-3024-1

Nano Research 2020, 13(12): 3371-3376 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3024-1

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Self-assembly of colloidal polymers from two-patch silica nanoparticles

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1Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, CRPP, UMR 5031, Pessac 33600, France

2Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, ICMCB, UMR 5026, Pessac 33600, France

3Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, Talence 33400, France

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self-assembly, nanoparticles, colloidal polymers, patchy

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Li W, Liu B, Hubert C, et al. Self-assembly of colloidal polymers from two-patch silica nanoparticles. Nano Research, 2020, 13(12): 3371-3376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3024-1

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We report the formation of colloidal polymers consisting of disk-like silica nanoparticles (NPs) with polystyrene (PS) chains at the bottom of their two cavities assembled through reduction of the solvent quality for the PS chains and linked by hydrophobic associations. We show that this NPs assembly exhibits a two-stage process involving reaction-controlled polymerization and diffusion-controlled polymerization. Colloidal polymer networks are produced by the incorporation of three-patch NPs, which serve as branching points between the colloidal chains. By co-assembling preformed homopolymers composed of patchy NPs of different sizes or surface chemical groups, block copolymers are also achieved. This study provides insight into the process of self-assembly of two-patch NPs by precisely designing the components to generate colloidal analogues of linear macromolecular chains.

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Self-assembly of colloidal polymers from two-patch silica nanoparticles

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Weiya Li^{¹^,²}, Bin Liu^{¹^,²}, Céline Hubert^{¹^,³}, Adeline Perro^³, Etienne Duguet^², Serge Ravaine^¹(

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1Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, CRPP, UMR 5031, Pessac 33600, France

2Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, ICMCB, UMR 5026, Pessac 33600, France

3Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ISM, UMR 5255, Talence 33400, France

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Keywords: self-assembly, nanoparticles, colloidal polymers, patchy

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Received: 03 January 2020

Revised: 31 July 2020

Accepted: 01 August 2020

Published: 09 September 2020

Issue date: December 2020

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This work was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ENLARgER project, No. ANR-15-CE09-0010), the LabEx AMADEus (No. ANR-10-LABX-42) and IdEx Bordeaux (No. ANR-10-IDEX-03-02), that is, the Investissements d’Avenir programme of the French government managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. W. Y. L. and B. L. are supported by a grant from the China Scholarship Council. Some of the TEM experiments were performed at the Plateforme de Caractérisation des Matériaux (UMS 3626, Pessac, France). A. Arnould, R. Soulas and S. Aguy are greatly thanked for their help during the liquid cell electron microscopy experiments.