General principles and recent developments in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)
are reviewed. The “in situ” Turkevich-Frens and Brust-Schiffrin methods are still major …

This paper focuses on the attachment of densely grafted polymer layers (polymer brushes)
to various inorganic and polymeric substrates by the “grafting to” method. A brief overview of …

Organized arrays of anisotropic nanoparticles show electronic and optical properties that
originate from the coupling of shape-dependent properties of the individual nanorods. The …

Reversible addition‐fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization is a recent and very
versatile controlled radical polymerization technique that has enabled the synthesis of a …

We have developed a new class of plasmonic vesicular nanostructures assembled from
amphiphilic gold nanocrystals with mixed polymer brush coatings. One major finding is that …

Mucin-related carbohydrates are overexpressed on the surface of cancer cells, providing a
disease-specific target for cancer immunotherapy. Here, we describe the design and …

The use of various functionalized polymers as stabilizers to design metal core–organic shell
hybrid nanoparticle architectures has attracted increasing interest for different applications …

Recently, the polymer modified gold nanoparticles have showed much potential in
advanced materials. In this paper, the smart core/shell nanocomposites of intelligent …

Both inorganic nanoparticles and polymers have become ubiquitous components of
nanostructured systems. The development of an understanding of the interactions between …

Mixed polymer brush-grafted particles, in which two distinct polymers are randomly or
alternately immobilized by one end via a covalent bond on the surface of core particles with …