Janus nanoparticles inside polymeric materials: interfacial arrangement toward functional hybrid materials

Janus nanoparticles inside polymeric materials: interfacial arrangement toward functional hybrid materials

Control of the location and spatial organization of nanoparticles (NPs) inside polymers is essential to generate highly ordered NP-based functional devices including plasmonic waveguides, photonic crystals, optical lenses, memory storage devices, nanoelectronic circuits, photovoltaics, and batteries. Due to the unique combination of amphiphilicity and the particle character, Janus nanoparticles...

Janus Nanoparticles by Interfacial Engineering

The intense research interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology is largely fueled by the unique properties of nanoscale materials that may deviate vastly from those of their constituent atoms and bulk forms. In order to exploit these unprecedented materials properties for the fabrication of next-generation devices and circuitries, two key aspects that are intimately related to each other have t...

Polymeric Dielectric Materials

The definition for dielectric constant relates to the permittivity of the material (symbol use here ε). The permittivity expresses the ability of a material to polarise in response to an applied field. It is the ratio of the permittivity of the dielectric to the permittivity of a vacuum. Physically it means the greater the polarisation developed by a material in an applied field of given streng...

Polymeric triple-shape materials.

Shape-memory polymers represent a promising class of materials that can move from one shape to another in response to a stimulus such as heat. Thus far, these systems are dual-shape materials. Here, we report a triple-shape polymer able to change from a first shape (A) to a second shape (B) and from there to a third shape (C). Shapes B and C are recalled by subsequent temperature increases. Whe...

Polymeric Nanocomposite Materials