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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 37, Issue 11, Pages 894-899Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201600093
Keywords
armored particles; graphene oxide; miniemulsion polymerization; photopolymerization; thiol-ene chemistry
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- CWRU
- NASA [NNX13AR93H]
- NASA [NNX13AR93H, 463850] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Facile and scalable fabrication methods are attractive to prepare materials for diverse applications. Herein, a method is presented to prepare cross-linked polymeric nanoparticles with graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets covalently attached to the surface. Alkene-modified GO serves as a surfactant in a miniemulsion polymerization, and the alkene functionalities of GO exposed to the oil-phase are incorporated into the polymer particle through thiol-ene reactions, leaving the unreacted alkene functional groups of the other face of GO available for further functionalization. The surface of GO-armored polymer particles is then modified with a small molecule fluorophore or carboxylic acid functional groups that bind to Fe2O3 and TiO2 nanoparticles. This methodology provides a facile route to preparing complex hybrid composite materials.
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