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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5024-5029 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Polymer |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 17 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2007.08.10 |
Keywords
- Dendrimers
- Microshells
- Nanoparticles
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