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Nanorods of Well-Defined Length and Monodisperse Cross-Section Obtained from Electrostatic Complexation of Nanoparticles with a Semiflexible Biopolymer  

imgNanorods of well-defined length and monodisperse cross-section obtained from electrostatic complexation of nanoparticles with a semiflexible biopolymer,
Li Shi, Florent Carn, François Boué, Gervaise Mosser, and Eric Buhler
ACS Macro Lett., 2012, 1 (7), pp 857–861.

We show by combining small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) that anionic silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) assemble into well-defined 1D cluster when mixed with a dilute solution of semiflexible chitosan polycation. The nanorods are stable in excess of SiNPs and composed of 10 SiNPs well-ordered into straight single strands with length Lrod ≈ 184.0 nm and radius Rrod = 9.2 nm = RSiNPs. We point out that the ratio between the chitosan persistence length and the SiNP radius, which is here equal to 1, can be the determining condition to obtain such original objects.

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