Preface ....................................................... vii
Contributors ................................................. xiii
1 METAL-POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES BY SUPERCRITICAL FLUID
PROCESSING ................................................... 1
T. Hasell
2 IN SITU SYNTHESIS OF POLYMER-EMBEDDED NANOSTRUCTURES ........ 45
W.R. Caseri
3 PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF METAL-POLYMER
NANOCOMPOSITES .............................................. 73
L. Nicolais and G. Carotenuto
4 MACROMOLECULAR METAL CARBOXYLATES AS PRECURSORS
OF METALLOPOLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES ............................ 97
G.I. Dzhardimalieva and A.D. Pomogailo
5 IN-SITU MICROWAVE-ASSISTED FABRICATION OF POLYMERIC
NANOCOMPOSITES ............................................. 115
H. SadAbadi, S. Badilescu, M. Packirisamy, and
R. Wüthrich
6 CHEMISTRY INSIDE A POLYMER THIN FILM: IN SITU SOFT
CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF METAL NANOPARTICLES AND
APPLICATIONS ............................................... 129
E. Hariprasad and T.P. Radhakrishnan
7 PHOTOINDUCED GENERATION OF NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES INTO
POLYMER MATRICES AND METHODS FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF
THE DERIVED NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS ............................ 145
A. Pucci and G. Ruggeri
8 INTERMATRIX SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER-
STABILIZED FUNCTIONAL METAL AND METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES .. 165
A. Alonso, G.-L. Davies, A. Satti, J. Macanás,
Y.K. Gun'ко, M. Munoz, and D.N. Muraviev
9 PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL
SILVER/POLYSTYRENE NANOCOMPOSITES .......................... 195
G. Carotenuto, M. Palomba, L. Cristino, M.A. Di Grazia,
S. De Nicola, and F. Nicolais
10 NANOMATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION BY X-RAY SCATTERING
TECHNIQUES ................................................. 209
C. Giannini, D. Siliqi, and D. Altamura
Index ......................................................... 223
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