Entropy-driven formation of binary superlattices assembled from polymer-tethered nanorods and nanospheres

Jinlan Li; Xin Yu; Jianing Zhang; Nan Yan; Jing Jin; Wei Jiang

doi:10.1039/d3cc04089e

Entropy-driven formation of binary superlattices assembled from polymer-tethered nanorods and nanospheres

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Oct 12;59(82):12338-12341. doi: 10.1039/d3cc04089e.

Authors

Jinlan Li^{1

2}, Xin Yu^{1

2}, Jianing Zhang¹, Nan Yan³, Jing Jin¹, Wei Jiang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China. nyan@ccsfu.edu.cn.
² University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
³ College of Chemistry, Changchun Normal University, Changchun 130032, China.

PMID: 37767754
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc04089e

Abstract

Integrating binary mixtures of nanoparticles (NPs) into well-defined superstructures gives rise to novel collective properties depending on the shapes and individual properties of both species. In this paper, we studied the entropy-driven formation of binary superlattices assembled from polymer-tethered nanorods and nanospheres. The results indicated that the conformational entropy of the polymer chains and the mixing entropy of the nanorods and nanospheres are two parameters that determine the formation of binary superlattices.