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Concentrated reverse micelles in a random graft block copolymer system: structure and in-situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles

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The structure and rheological properties of a poly(dimethylsiloxane)-graft-poly(oxyethylene) copolymer at high concentrations in block-selective solvents were studied by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and rheometry. Analysis of SAXS data indicates that quasispherical, reverse micellar aggregates (with no ordered packing) are present in concentrated solutions of the copolymer in nonpolar solvents, and that upon addition of water, the size of such aggregates increases due to the solubilization inside the micellar cores. The viscosity of concentrated polymer solutions increases exponentially as water is added, and finally, viscoelastic, gel-like behavior is found in the vicinity of the phase separation limit. It was found that small silver nanoparticles with an average diameter of ≈3 nm can be synthesized inside the copolymer aggregates without the need of a reducing agent; namely, particles embedded in a viscoelastic matrix are obtained. The synthesis seems to follow first-order kinetics.

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Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful to Dr. Takaaki Sato (Waseda University, Japan) for useful discussions and suggestions on SAXS results, and to Dr. Dominique Scalarone (University of Torino, Italy), for providing data on size-exclusion chromatography.

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  1. Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Spain

    Carlos Rodríguez-Abreu, Massimo Lazzari & Manuel Arturo López Quintela

  2. Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Tokiwadai 79-7, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501, Japan

    Dharmesh Varade, Masaya Kaneko & Kenji Aramaki

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Rodríguez-Abreu, C., Lazzari, M., Varade, D. et al. Concentrated reverse micelles in a random graft block copolymer system: structure and in-situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles. Colloid Polym Sci 285, 673–680 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-006-1612-6

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