Design of an Amphiphilic Polymer for Nanoparticle Coating and Functionalization

Abstract

Amphiphilic polymer-coating for nanoparticles: The facile one-pot synthesis of a comblike polymer can be tailored in order to vary its hydrophobic side-chains or to directly incorporate functional molecules without the need for crosslinkers. This leads to a general and robust method of phase-transfer of hydrophobic nanoparticles to aqueous solution, as well as to their modification with functional molecules.