Novel Nanoscale Hybrid Materials

A comprehensive resource filled with strategic insights, tools, and techniques for the design and construction of hybrid materials

Hybrid materials represent the best of material properties being combined for the development for materials with properties otherwise unavailable for application requirements. Novel Nanoscale Hybrid Materials is a comprehensive resource that contains contributions from a wide range of noted scientists from various fields, working on the hybridization of nanomolecules in order to generate new materials with superior properties. The book focuses on the new directions and developments in design and application of new materials, incorporating organic/inorganic polymers, biopolymers, and nanoarchitecture approaches.

This book delves deeply into the complexities that arise when characteristics of a molecule change on the nanoscale, overriding the properties of the individual nanomolecules and generating new properties and capabilities altogether. The main topics cover hybrids of carbon nanotubes and metal nanoparticles, semiconductor polymer/biopolymer hybrids, metal biopolymer hybrids, bioorganic/inorganic hybrids, and much more.

This important resource:

• Addresses a cutting-edge field within nanomaterials by presenting a groundbreaking topics that address hybrid nanostructures

• Includes contributions from an interdisciplinary group of chemists, physicists, materials scientists, chemical and biomedical engineers

• Contains applications in a wide-range of fields--including biomedicine, energy, catalysis, green chemistry, graphene chemistry, and environmental science

• Offers expert commentaries that explore potential future avenues of future research trends

Novel Nanoscale Hybrid Materials is an important resource for chemists, physicists, materials, chemical and biomedical engineers that offers the most recent developments and techniques in hybrid nanostructures.

Auteur

BHANU P. S. CHAUHAN is a Professor and the Chairperson of the Department of Chemistry at William Paterson University, where he heads the Engineered Nanomaterials Laboratory. He obtained his PhD under the guidance of Professor Robert Corriu and Gerard Lanneau from Montpellier University II, France and received postdoctoral training in the groups of Professor Masato Tanaka (National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research in Japan) and Professor Phil Boudjouk (North Dakota State University). He has held the position of Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of America and City University of New York-CSI, where he also attained the rank of Associate Professor. He joined William Paterson University (WPU) in 2007 as a Professor and Chair of the Department. His research area is in the field of nanomaterials synthesis and application in areas such as green catalysis, hybrid materials for new optical and data storage, and nanostructure-based drug delivery vehicles.

Résumé
A comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource filled with strategic insights, tools, and techniques for the design and construction of hybrid materials.

Hybrid materials represent the best of material properties being combined for the development for materials with properties otherwise unavailable for application requirements. Novel Nanoscale Hybrid Materials is a comprehensive resource that contains contributions from a wide range of noted scientists from various fields, working on the hybridization of nanomolecules in order to generate new materials with superior properties. The book focuses on the new directions and developments in design and application of new materials, incorporating organic/inorganic polymers, biopolymers, and nanoarchitecture approaches.

This book delves deeply into the complexities that arise when characteristics of a molecule change on the nanoscale, overriding the properties of the individual nanomolecules and generating new properties and capabilities altogether. The main topics cover hybrids of carbon nanotubes and metal nanoparticles, semiconductor polymer/biopolymer hybrids, metal biopolymer hybrids, bioorganic/inorganic hybrids, and much more.

This important resource:

• Addresses a cutting-edge field within nanomaterials by presenting groundbreaking topics that address hybrid nanostructures
• Includes contributions from an interdisciplinary group of chemists, physicists, materials scientists, chemical and biomedical engineers
• Contains applications in a wide-range of fieldsincluding biomedicine, energy, catalysis, green chemistry, graphene chemistry, and environmental science
• Offers expert commentaries that explore potential future avenues of future research trends
  Novel Nanoscale Hybrid Materials is an important resource for chemists, physicists, materials, chemical and biomedical engineers that offers the most recent developments and techniques in hybrid nanostructures.

Contenu

List of Contributors xiii

1 Silanols as Building Blocks for Nanomaterials 1
*Masafumi Unno and Hisayuki Endo*

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Synthesis and Applications of Silanols 2

1.2.1 Silanetriols and Disiloxanetetraols 2

1.2.2 Cyclotetrasiloxanetetraol (Cyclic Silanols, All?]cis Isomer) 5

1.2.3 Cyclotetrasiloxanetetraol (Cyclic Silanols, Other Isomers) 14

1.2.4 Cyclotrisiloxanetriol 15

1.3 Structures and Properties of Nanomaterials Obtained from Silanols 20

1.3.1 Structure of Laddersiloxanes 20

1.3.2 Thermal Property of Laddersiloxanes 23

1.3.3 Thermal Property of Other Silsesquioxanes 26

1.3.4 Refractive Indices of Silsesquioxanes 28

1.4 Summary and Outlook 29

References 29

2 Biomacromolecule?]Enabled Synthesis of Inorganic Materials 33
*Kristina L. Roth and Tijana Z. Grove*

2.1 Introduction 33

2.2 DNA 34

2.3 Proteins and Peptides 36

2.3.1 Cage Proteins 37

2.3.2 Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) 38

2.3.3 Engineered Peptides 40

2.3.4 Engineered Protein Scaffolds 42

2.4 Polysaccharides 44

2.5 Methods of Characterization 46

2.6 Conclusion 50

References 50

3 Multilayer Assemblies of Biopolymers: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications 57
*Jun Chen, Veronika Kozlovskaya, Daniëlle Pretorius, and Eugenia Kharlampieva*

3.1 Introduction 57

3.2 Assembly of Biopolymer Multilayers 58

3.2.1 Biopolymers and Their Properties 58

3.2.2 Growth and Thickness of Biopolymer Multilayers 59

3.2.3 Stability in Solutions and Enzymatic Degradation of Biopolymer Multilayers 74

3.2.3.1 Enzymatic Degradation 75

3.2.3.2 pH and Salt Stability 78

3.2.4 Hydration and Swelling of Biopolymer Multilayers 81

3.3 Properties of Biopolymer Multilayers 83

3.3.1 Surface Properties of Biopolymer Multilayers and Their Interaction with Cells 83

3.3.2 Antibacterial Properties 84

3.3.3 Immunomodulatory Properties 85

3.3.4 Mechanical Properties of Biopolymer Multilayers 87

3.3.5 Other Properties 90

3.4 Applications 91

3.5 Conclusion and Outlook 95

Acknowledgments 96

References 96

4 Functionalization of P3HT?]Based Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaic Applications 107
*Michèle Chevrier, Riccardo Di Ciuccio, Olivier Coulembier, Philippe Dubois, Sébastien Richeter, Ahmad *Mehdi, and Sébastien Clément

4.1 Introduction 107

4.2 Design and Synthesis of Regioregular Poly(3?]Hexylthiophene) 109

4.2.1 Metal?]Catalyzed Cross?]Coupling Reactions 114

4.2.1.1 Nickel?]Catalyzed Cross?]Coupling Reactions 114

4.2.1.2 Palladium?]Catalyzed Cross?]Coupling Reactions 121

4.2.2 Functionalization of P3HT 126

4.2.2.1 End?]Group Functionalization 127

4.2.2.2 Side?]Chain Functionalization 130

4.3 Morphology Control of P3HT/PCBM Blend by Functionalization 132

4.3.1 Introduction 132

4.3.2 End?]Group Functionalization 134

4.3.2.1 Fluorinated Chain Ends 135

4.3.2.2 Hydrophilic Chain Ends 139

4.3.2.3 Aromatic Chain Ends 139

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