In this review we provide an analysis of recent literature reports on the synthesis and
applications of stimuli-responsive polymeric and hybrid nanostructured particles in a range …

Nanoparticle assembly offers a versatile tool for constructing new structural materials with
emergent or collective properties beyond individual nanoparticles. The achievement of …

The use of various functionalized polymers as stabilizers to design metal core–organic shell
hybrid nanoparticle architectures has attracted increasing interest for different applications …

Recently, the polymer modified gold nanoparticles have showed much potential in
advanced materials. In this paper, the smart core/shell nanocomposites of intelligent …

Mixed polymer brush-grafted particles, in which two distinct polymers are randomly or
alternately immobilized by one end via a covalent bond on the surface of core particles with …

We present a condensed overview of the recent developments of novel responsive thin
polymer films from end-tethered chains (polymer brushes), which are different from …

Polymer-grafted nanoparticles, often called hairy nanoparticles (HNPs), are an intriguing
class of nanostructured hybrid materials with great potential in a variety of applications …

Organic–inorganic hybrid nanocomposites are an emerging class of materials that hold
significant promise due to their outstanding properties, which usually arise from a combined …

A simple strategy to tailor the surface of nanoparticles for their specific adsorption to and
localization at block copolymer interfaces was explored. Gold nanoparticles coated by a …

We report a new class of amphiphilic nanocrystals with mixed polymer brush coatings, which
can spontaneously assemble into two-dimensional arrays at oil− water interfaces. The …