The pursuit of functional composites that impact a wide range of technologies, including optical or quantum information processing has stimulated significant interest in the preparation of hybrid material combining different inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) with polymers. Advances in NP-polymer composites requires nanostructured polymers and synthetic strategies that allow for spatially regulated arrangement, and ideally precision geometric positioning of the NPs in order to control their collective properties.  Although a wide variety of polymers have been evaluated as stabilizing matrices for embedding NPs considerably few efforts have tackled co-integration of disparate NPs, such as combining hydrophobic (organosoluble NPs) with hydrophilic NPs (water soluble NPs). To address this opportunity, our efforts on the use of nanostructured polymerized ionic liquids (poly(IL)s) as scaffolding for the spatial organization or reactive matrix for in-situ synthesis of NPs will be detailed.

Synthetic approaches for preparation of binary, heterogeneous nanoparticle composites for solid-state photonics

2019 Spring National Meeting

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