Fabrication of Ordered Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles Coated with High‐Density Polymer Brushes

Abstract

A brush with gold: Gold nanoparticles with a narrow size distribution have been coated with well-defined, high-density polymer brushes (see AFM image) by means of surface-initiated living radical polymerization. The gold nanoparticles have formed a 2D array with a high degree of structural order and exceptional controllability of the interparticle distance.