Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Polymer brushes are thin polymer films in which the individual polymer chains are tethered
by one chain end to a solid interface. The bulk and solution properties of these highly …

This Perspective presents recent advances in macromolecular engineering enabled by
ATRP. They include the fundamental mechanistic and synthetic features of ATRP with …

Recent progress in surface-initiated polymerization enables the deliberate polymer
modification of nanoscopic surfaces with high levels of precision. This has given rise to the …

A recurring challenge in the field of nanocomposites is to control the spatial distribution of
nanoparticles (NPs) in a polymer matrix. This issue is of critical importance since it is now …

Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) has become an
indispensable tool for engineering the structure and properties of polymer/inorganic and …

Multicomponent nanocrystal superlattices represent an interesting class of material that
derives emergent properties from mesoscale structure, yet their programmability can be …

BACKGROUND Composites comprising nanoscale particles embedded in a second phase
(or matrix) create exciting opportunities to design functional materials with strong coupling …

Piezoelectric organic–inorganic hybrid nanocomposites utilize the advantages of high
piezoelectricity of piezoelectric ceramics as well as the dielectric properties and flexibility of …