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Helical Packing of Nanoparticles Confined in Cylindrical Domains of a Self‐Assembled Block Copolymer Structure |
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| Authors: | Sunita Sanwaria Dr Andriy Horechyy Dr Daniel Wolf Dr Che‐Yi Chu Prof?Dr Hsin‐Lung Chen Dr Petr Formanek Prof?Dr Manfred Stamm Prof?Dr Rajiv Srivastava Prof?Dr Bhanu Nandan |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016 (India);2. Leibniz Institut fur Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. Hohe Strasse 6, 01069 Dresden (Germany);3. Institute of Structural Physics, Triebenberg Laboratory, Technische Universit?t Dresden, 01062 Dresden (Germany);4. Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing‐Hua University, Hsinchu 30013 (Taiwan) |
| Abstract: | Theoretical models predict that a variety of self‐assembled structures of closely packed spherical particles may result when they are confined in a cylindrical domain. In the present work we demonstrate for the first time that the polymer‐coated nanoparticles confined in the self‐assembled cylindrical domains of a block copolymer pack in helical morphology, where we can isolate individual fibers filled with helically arranged nanoparticles. This finding provides unique possibilities for fundamental as well as application‐oriented research in similar directions. |
| Keywords: | block copolymers helical packing nanoobjects nanoparticles self‐assembly |