One-step preparation of size-selected and well-dispersed silver nanocrystals in polyacrylonitrile by simultaneous reduction and polymerization

Abstract

Size-selected silver nanoparticle–polyacrylonitrile (PAN) composites have been synthesized by a simultaneous polymerization–reduction approach, providing highly crystalline silver nanocrystals with a narrow size distribution well dispersed in PAN matrixes.