A smart hybrid system of Au nanoparticle immobilized PDMAEMA brushes for thermally adjustable catalysis

Jing Chen; Peng Xiao; Jincui Gu; Di Han; Jiawei Zhang; Aihua Sun; Wenqin Wang; Tao Chen

doi:10.1039/c3cc47386d

A smart hybrid system of Au nanoparticle immobilized PDMAEMA brushes for thermally adjustable catalysis

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Feb 7;50(10):1212-4. doi: 10.1039/c3cc47386d.

Authors

Jing Chen¹, Peng Xiao, Jincui Gu, Di Han, Jiawei Zhang, Aihua Sun, Wenqin Wang, Tao Chen

Affiliation

¹ Division of Polymer and Composite Materials, Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Ningbo, China. tao.chen@nimte.ac.cn.

PMID: 24336393
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc47386d

Abstract

A smart hybrid system was prepared by introducing the temperature responsive PDMAEMA brushes and Au NPs into silica NPs through self-initiated photografting and photopolymerization (SIPGP) and reduction of HAuCl4. The obtained SiO2@PDMAEMA-Au hybrid system was investigated to have a thermally adjustable catalytic activity for the reduction of 4-nitrophenol.