Nekane Guarrotxena
Spanish National Research Council, Spain
Title: Smart functional nanoscale-hybrid materials: Surface modification and applications
Biography
Biography: Nekane Guarrotxena
Abstract
The unique feature to respond to small changes in its environment, usually reversibly, has made the stimuli-responsive polymers very promising in the generation of smart materials for medical and engineering applications. Very interesting and appealing seems to be their combination with inorganic nanoparticles to yield nano hybrids which combine the interesting and intriguing properties of the individual components, modify them, or exhibit novel properties. Within this presentation, we want to highlight some of our recent progress in their successful integration via multidentate grafting to conjugation which accomplishes the highly desirable features, such as hydrodynamic size compression, amphiphilic, pH- and thermo-responsiveness, and enhanced optical properties for future biological and technological applications of our functional nano hybrids.