Novel one pot synthesis of silver nanoparticle–polymer composites by supercritical CO2 polymerisation in the presence of a RAFT agent

Tom Hasell; Kristofer J. Thurecht; Rhys D. W. Jones; Paul D. Brown; Steven M. Howdle

doi:10.1039/B710503G

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Novel one pot synthesis of silver nanoparticle–polymer composites by supercritical CO₂polymerisation in the presence of a RAFT agent†

Tom Hasell,^a Kristofer J. Thurecht,^a Rhys D. W. Jones,^a Paul D. Brown^b and Steven M. Howdle*^a

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^a University of Nottingham, School of Chemistry, University Park, Nottingham, UK
E-mail: steve.howdle@nottingham.ac.uk
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Tel: 0115 951 3486

^b University of Nottingham, School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University Park, Nottingham, UK

Abstract

We report the one pot synthesis of a silver–polymer nanocomposite in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO₂) whereby an organometallic silver complex is thermally decomposed in the presence of a reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) agent during a polymerisation reaction in which the RAFT agent simultaneously stabilises the growing polymer microparticles and the formation of surface located silver nanoparticles.

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Synthesis details of RAFT agent, GPC, NMR, EDX data and additional TEM images PDF (1578K)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B710503G
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 12 Jul 2007
Accepted: 16 Aug 2007
First published: 31 Aug 2007

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Chem. Commun., 2007, 3933-3935

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Novel one pot synthesis of silver nanoparticle–polymer composites by supercritical CO₂ polymerisation in the presence of a RAFT agent

T. Hasell, K. J. Thurecht, R. D. W. Jones, P. D. Brown and S. M. Howdle, Chem. Commun., 2007, 3933 DOI: 10.1039/B710503G

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