Fabrication of 1D Fe 3O 4/P(NIPAM-MBA) thermosensitive nanochains by magnetic-field-induced precipitation polymerization

作者：Ma M; Zhang Q^*; Dou J; Zhang H; Geng W; Yin D; Chen S

来源：Colloid and Polymer Science: Kolloid-Zeitschrift und Zeitschrift fuer Polymere , 2012, 290(12): 1207-1213.

DOI：10.1007/s00396-012-2696-9

• Fe 3O 4/P(NIPAM-MBA)
• Magnetic-field-induced (MFI) assembly
• One-dimensional thermosensitive nanochains
• Precipitation polymerization

One-dimensional (ID) magnetic thermosensitive Fe 3O 4/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide) (P(NIPAM-MBA)) peapod-like nanochains have been successfully synthesized by magnetic-field-induced precipitation polymerization using Fe 3O 4 as building blocks and P(NIPAM-MBA) as linker. Fe 3O 4 microspheres can be arranged with the direction of an external magnetic field in a line via the dipolar interaction between Fe 3O 4 microspheres and linked permanently via P(NIPAM-MBA) coating during precipitation polymerization. 1D magnetic Fe 3O 4/P(NIPAM-MBA) peapod-like nanochains can be oriented and aligned along the direction of the external magnetic field. More interestingly, Fe 3O 4 microspheres in each peapod were regularly arranged in a line and periodically separated through the P (NIPAM-MBA) layers with a visible interparticle spacing.