Abstract
Novel polyelectrolyte-grafted core-shell organic/inorganic hybrid nanospheres which possess hard backbone of silica nanoparticles and soft shell of cross-linked poly(ionic liquids) (PILs) have been synthesized via a surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP). After removal of the core templates of the core-shell nanospheres, nearly monodispersed hollow polyelectrolyte nanospheres were obtained. Various characterization techniques including FT-IR, XPS, and TEM were used to characterize the resulting core-shell and hollow polyelectrolyte nanospheres. The results showed that the hollow nanosphere has a hollow core of an average diameter of ca. 200 nm with a shell thickness of ca. 25 nm. The obtained hollow polyelectrolyte nanospheres could be applied in release-control systems.
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