Giant hollow fiber formation through self-assembly of oppositely charged polyelectrolyte brushes and gold nanoparticles
Crassous, Jerome LU ; Millard, Pierre-Eric ; Mihut, Adriana LU ; Wittemann, Alexander ; Drechsler, Markus ; Ballauff, Matthias and Schurtenberger, Peter LU
(2013)
In Soft Matter
9(38).
p.9111-9118
- Abstract
- We report on the use of binary mixtures of oppositely charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and spherical polyelectrolyte brushes (SPBs), consisting of a polystyrene core onto which long polystyrene sulfonate chains are grafted, as a simple model system to investigate the influence of directional interactions on self-assembly. We demonstrate that the mixing ratio, i.e., the number of AuNPs per SPB, has a profound influence on self-assembly. In particular we report on the formation of giant hollow fibers, and present a thorough characterization of these nanostructures. We speculate that the adsorption of a few AuNPs on the SPBs appears to direct the tubular self-assembly, and discuss the analogy to the case of modified proteins such as tubulin... (More)
- We report on the use of binary mixtures of oppositely charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and spherical polyelectrolyte brushes (SPBs), consisting of a polystyrene core onto which long polystyrene sulfonate chains are grafted, as a simple model system to investigate the influence of directional interactions on self-assembly. We demonstrate that the mixing ratio, i.e., the number of AuNPs per SPB, has a profound influence on self-assembly. In particular we report on the formation of giant hollow fibers, and present a thorough characterization of these nanostructures. We speculate that the adsorption of a few AuNPs on the SPBs appears to direct the tubular self-assembly, and discuss the analogy to the case of modified proteins such as tubulin under the action of nucleotides. (Less)
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- Crassous, Jerome
LU
; Millard, Pierre-Eric
; Mihut, Adriana
LU
; Wittemann, Alexander
; Drechsler, Markus
; Ballauff, Matthias
and Schurtenberger, Peter
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Soft Matter
- volume
- 9
- issue
- 38
- pages
- 9111 - 9118
- publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
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- wos:000324423700009
- scopus:84884160878
- ISSN
- 1744-6848
- DOI
- 10.1039/c3sm51200b
- language
- English
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