Journal
POLYMER
Volume 50, Issue 26, Pages 6193-6197Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2009.11.004
Keywords
Electrospinning; Microgels; Metal nanoclusters
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- European Community [MRTN-CT-2006-033873]
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We demonstrate for the first time herein that electrospinning of soluble crosslinked polymer particles (microgels) is feasible and that it call be used to obtain micron-sized fibers from these macromolecules. Most notably, the electrospinning approach is found to be successful also in the case of microgels bearing metal nanoclusters, and allows to prepare composite fibers containing a homogeneous dispersion of metal nanoparticles without alterations in the nanoparticle size and size distribution. Given the broad applicability of microgels as exotemplates and stabilisers for inorganic nanoparticles, the proposed preparation method stands out as a novel. general approach for the synthesis of potentially useful composite fibers containing inorganic nanoparticles. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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