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Back Cover: Next‐Generation Polymer Shells for Inorganic Nanoparticles are Highly Compact, Ultra‐Dense, and Long‐Lasting Cyclic Brushes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 16/2017)
Author(s) -
Morgese Giulia,
Shirmardi Shaghasemi Behzad,
Causin Valerio,
ZenobiWong Marcy,
Ramakrishna Shivaprakash N.,
Reimhult Erik,
Benetti Edmondo M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201702423
Subject(s) - brush , nanoparticle , polymer , materials science , nanotechnology , shell (structure) , cover (algebra) , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , chemistry , composite material , mechanical engineering , engineering
Next‐generation shells for inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) are polymeric “shields” designed to last. In their Communication on page 4507 ff., E. M. Benetti et al. have demonstrated that when cyclic polymer ligands are grafted onto inorganic NPs, ultra‐dense and highly compact brush shells are generated. Core‐cyclic shell NPs are significantly more stable than their linear brush‐functionalized counterparts and show full bio‐inertness towards serum proteins.