Surface-Initiated Zerovalent Metal-Mediated Controlled Radical Polymerization (SI-Mt0CRP) for Brush Engineering

D Wu, W Li, T Zhang - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The surface-tethered polymer brush has become a powerful approach to
tailoring the chemical and physical properties of surfaces and interfaces and revealed broad …

Polymer brushes and surface nanostructures: Molecular design, precise synthesis, and self-assembly

C Wang, H Zhao - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
For over two decades, polymer brushes have found wide applications in industry and
scientific research. Now, polymer brush research has been a significant research focus in …

Organic nanoparticles with tunable size and rigidity by hyperbranching and cross-linking using microemulsion ATRP

R Yin, J Tarnsangpradit, A Gul, J Jeong, X Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Unlike inorganic nanoparticles, organic nanoparticles (oNPs) offer the advantage of “interior
tailorability,” thereby enabling the controlled variation of physicochemical characteristics and …

Coassembly of Complementary Polyhedral Metal–Organic Framework Particles into Binary Ordered Superstructures

L Meng, J Fonseca, R Sánchez-Naya… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Here we report the formation of a 3D NaCl-type binary porous superstructure via
coassembly of two colloidal polyhedral metal–organic framework (MOF) particles having …

Controlling colloidal crystal nucleation and growth with photolithographically defined templates

T Hueckel, DJ Lewis, A Mertiri, DJD Carter… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Colloidal crystallization provides a means to synthesize hierarchical nanostructures by
design and to use these complex structures for nanodevice fabrication. In particular, DNA …

Scalable Macroscopic Engineering from Polymer-Based Nanoscale Building Blocks: Existing Challenges and Emerging Opportunities

D Lu, VA Bobrin - Biomacromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
Natural materials exhibit exceptional properties due to their hierarchical structures spanning
from the nano-to the macroscale. Replicating these intricate spatial arrangements in …

Regio‐Selective Mechanical Enhancement of Polymer‐Grafted Nanoparticle Composites via Light‐Mediated Crosslinking

K Kim, BC Grummon, CJ Thrasher… - Advanced …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer‐brush‐grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) that can be covalently crosslinked post‐
processing enable the fabrication of mechanically robust and chemically stable polymer …

Controlling the thermally-driven crystallization of DNA-coated nanoparticles with formamide

T Hueckel, S Woo, RJ Macfarlane - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA-coated nanoparticles, also known as programmable atom equivalents (PAEs), facilitate
the construction of materials with nanoscopic precision. Thermal annealing plays a pivotal …

Emerging Trends in Hybrid Nanoparticles: Revolutionary Advances and Promising Biomedical Applications

H Bhardwaj, S Khute, RK Sahu… - Current Drug …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
Modern nanostructures must fulfill a wide range of functions to be valuable, leading to the
combination of various nano-objects into hierarchical assemblies. Hybrid Nanoparticles …

Self-Functional Off-Stoichiometry Polymeric Materials: Potential for Tunable Plasmonic Applications

S Das, A Singh, VR Rao, T Kundu - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Self-functional polymeric materials are of paramount importance in emerging lab-on-a-chip
device development that finds various optical sensing applications. The unique surface …