Blends of nanoparticles and polymers are enjoying substantial commercial success, ranging from automotive and aerospace, to sporting equipment, electronic enclosures, and food packaging.  Processing requirements, as well as fundamental geometrical considerations, however establish a practical limit on inorganic volume fraction such that polymer nanocomposites are generally considered a two-component extension of filled polymers with relatively low inorganic fraction. The explosion of approaches to organically functionalize nanoparticle surfaces though, has afforded the potential to engineer nanoparticle pair potential so that it is wholly repulsive or exhibits site-specific attractive interactions. In the nanoparticle assembly limit (no matrix medium), the resultant hybrid nanoparticle may exhibit organization ranging from liquid-like to long-range translational coherence. By tuning the structure and dynamics of the corona from ionic liquid motifs to low and intermediate graft densities of linear polymers, solution or melt-processible assemblies of metallic and metal-oxide hybrid nanoparticles provide novel materials for plasmonics, polarizers and capacitors.

Single component BaTiO<sub>3 </sub>polymer nanocomposites: Polymer-nanoparticle hybrids for capacitive energy storage

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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Single component BaTiO3 polymer nanocomposites: Polymer-nanoparticle hybrids for capacitive energy storage

Single component BaTiO₃polymer nanocomposites: Polymer-nanoparticle hybrids for capacitive energy storage