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Synthesis of copolymer-stabilized silver nanoparticles for coating materials

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Silver ions being less toxic than silver nanoparticles, a more safe material can be obtained to be used as antimicrobial coating. This can be achieved by using thiol chemistry and covalently attach the silver nanoparticles in the coating. Our aim is to produce a coating having antimicrobial properties of silver ions but with the silver nanoparticles firmly attached in the coating. Here, we present a way to produce silver nanoparticles that can be used as a component in a coating or as such to produce an antimicrobial coating. The silver nanoparticles presented here are stabilized by a copolymer (poly(butyl acrylate–methyl methacrylate)) that is soft and has well-known good film-producing properties. The reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer radical polymerization technique used to prepare the polymers provides conveniently a thiol group for effective binding of the silver nanoparticles to the polymers and thus to the coating.

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Acknowledgments

This was a MNT ERA-NET project funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, TEKES, Finland. Dr. Pablo Aras and Dr. Adriana Gil from NANOTEC ELECTRONICA are thanked for the AFM characterization.

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  1. Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Jukka Niskanen, Jun Shan & Heikki Tenhu

  2. NanoMaterials Group, Department of Applied Physics and Center for New Materials, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), P.O. Box 5100, 02150, Espoo, Finland

    Hua Jiang & Esko Kauppinen

  3. Department of Ionic Solids, Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

    Violeta Barranco & Fernando Picó

  4. Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 6100, 02015, Espoo, Finland

    Kirsi Yliniemi & Kyösti Kontturi

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Niskanen, J., Shan, J., Tenhu, H. et al. Synthesis of copolymer-stabilized silver nanoparticles for coating materials. Colloid Polym Sci 288, 543–553 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-009-2178-x

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