Chemistry Letters, Vol.31, No.10, 990-991, 2002
Polymer chain-guided arrangement of gold nanoparticles
Here we show a new method for arranging An nanoparticles along polymer chains. The method contains a polymer complex formation between a thiolated poly(ethylene oxide) chain bound on the An surface and the added polymers. When poly(acrylic acid) was added, the An particles formed a network arrangement. The Au particles lined up excellently when a rigid chondroitin sulfate c sodium salt was added to the solution.