Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Characterisation

Evidence for SERRS Enhancement in the Spectra of Ruthenium Dye–Metal Nanoparticle Conjugates

“…Research on nanostructured materials has grown rapidly during the past few decades because of a variety of interdisciplinary applications. For instance, in materials science, medicine, and engineering, the unique optical, catalytic, and electronic properties of structures in the nanometer regime have gained attention. − Nanoparticles can be composed of virtually all materials, including metals, semiconductors, (bio)polymers, and composite and alloy materials . Metal nanoparticles, which are at the core of the work presented here, exhibit outstanding properties in comparison to their bulk counterparts, as well as a large structural variability .…”

A review concerning the main factors that interfere in the electrical percolation threshold content of polymeric antistatic packaging with carbon fillers as antistatic agent

“…Another processing technique used to obtain polymer composites is in situ polymerization, which consists of the polymerization of monomer molecules in the presence of filler particles. [83,84] This method constitutes an interesting alternative to solution and melting processing methods, especially when thermally unstable or insoluble polymeric matrices are used. [85][86][87] The schematic diagram of Figure 7 shows the possible processing routes for the production of polymeric composites for antistatic applications.…”

1-dodecanthiol-assisted aqueous synthesis and characterization of Bi2Te3 nanotubes

“…Other studies have focused their attention on preparing both highly anisotropic nanosized materials such as nanoplates, [10][11][12][13] nanorods, [14,15] nanowires, [16,17] nanotubes [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] or other nanoparticles [27] and phonons scattering materials [12,28]. In this aim, a large number of synthetic techniques like for usual nanoparticles [29,30] have been reported such as hydrothermal [16,19,25], solvothermal [13,[31][32][33] sonochemical [34], micro-wave [10,15,35] synthesis, electrodeposition [20,36] or galvanic displacement [37,38]. Of particular interest is the surfactant-assisted synthesis that uses structuring molecular agents such as hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromine (CTAB) [13,39] sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) [39], sodium dodecylbenzene-sulfonate (SDBS) [14,16] and TOPO (trioctylphosphine oxide) [40] composed of a hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tail, that favor the growth of particles in ...…”