«Our fundamental contribution in this work is to judiciously prepare a star - shaped block co-polymer in which the inner block has the capability to coordinate with metal precursors while the outer block allows photo - responsive materials to interact, which in turn renders the crafting of photo -
responsive gold nanoparticles for light - enabled reversible and reliable self - assembly.»
That's one potential application for a new technology that combines water - repelling yet light - sensitive and water - absorbing materials into polymeric nano - reactors for creating photo -
responsive gold nanoparticles.
Not exact matches
«We envision that these photo -
responsive polymer - capped
gold nanoparticles could one day serve as nano - carriers for drug delivery into the body using our robust and reversible process for assembly and disassembly,» said Zhiqun Lin, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering.