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Dendrimer-encapsulated gold nanoparticles as building blocks for multilayer microshells

  • Olga V. Lebedeva
  • , Byoung Suhk Kim
  • , Franziska Gröhn
  • , Olga I. Vinogradova*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Sogang University
  • Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

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Abstract

We report the effect of gold nanoparticles encapsulated into the shell-forming PAMAM dendrimers on the assembly and properties of multilayer microshells. We demonstrate that the PAMAM-encapsulated gold nanoparticles change dramatically the optical spectroscopic properties of microcapsule dispersions, without significantly affecting the stiffness of microcapsules. Our results indicate that the use of dendrimer-protected nanoparticles as building blocks opens numerous possibilities to vary the composition and diverse properties of microshells without changing their stiffness.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5024-5029
Number of pages6
JournalPolymer
Volume48
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007.08.10

Keywords

  • Dendrimers
  • Microshells
  • Nanoparticles

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