Dynamic covalent nanoparticle building blocks
Abstract
Rational and generalizable methods for engineering surface functionality will be crucial to realizing the technological potential of nanomaterials. Nanoparticle-bound dynamic covalent exchange combines the error-correcting and environment-responsive features of equilibrium processes with the stability, structural precision and vast diversity of covalent chemistry, defining a new and powerful approach for manipulating structure, function and properties at nanomaterial surfaces. Dynamic covalent nanoparticle (DCNP) building blocks thus present a whole host of possibilities for constructing adaptive systems, devices and materials that incorporate both nanoscale and molecular functional components. At the same time, DCNPs have the potential to reveal fundamental insights regarding dynamic and complex chemical systems confined to nanoscale interfaces.
Citation
Kay , E R 2016 , ' Dynamic covalent nanoparticle building blocks ' , Chemistry - A European Journal , vol. 22 , no. 31 , pp. 10706-10716 . https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201601394
Publication
Chemistry - A European Journal
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0947-6539Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2016 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Description
The author thanks the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Government for a personal research fellowship and gratefully acknowledge the EPSRC (EP/K016342/1) and Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2015-042) for funding our work on dynamic nanomaterials.Collections
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