TY - JOUR A1 - Pleskunov, P. A1 - Nikitin, D. A1 - Tafiichuk, R. A1 - Shlemin, A. A1 - Hanus, J. A1 - Kousal, J. A1 - Krtous, Z. A1 - Khalakhan, I. A1 - Kus, P. A1 - Nasu, T. A1 - Nagahama, T. A1 - Funaki, C. A1 - Sato, H. A1 - Gawek, Marcel A1 - Schönhals, Andreas A1 - Choukourov, A. T1 - Plasma polymerization of acrylic acid for the tunable synthesis of glassy abd carboxylated nanoparticle N2 - Polymer nanoparticles (NPs) can be highly attractive in numerous applications including biomedicine where the use of inorganic matter may be detrimental for living tissues. In conventional wet chemistry, polymerization and functionalization of NPs with specific chemical groups involves complex and often numerous reactions. Here, we report on a solvent-free, single-step, low temperature plasma-based synthesis of carboxylated NPs produced by polymerization of acrylic acid under the conditions of a glow discharge. In a monomer-deficient regime, strong fragmentation of the monomer molecules by electron impact results in the formation of 15 nm-sized NPs with <1% retention of the carboxyl groups. In an energy-deficient regime, larger 90 nm-sized NPs are formed with better retention of the carboxyls that reaches 16 %. All types of the NPs exhibit the glass transition above the room temperature which makes them highly stable under aqueous environment with no dissolution or swelling. They are also found to degrade thermally when heated above 150 °C with a decrease of the mean NP size, yet with the retention of the chemical composition. Thus, plasma polymerization proves to be a versatile approach for the production of polymer NPs with tuneable size distribution, chemical composition and physical properties. KW - Nanoparticles PY - 2020 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b08960 VL - 124 SP - 668 EP - 678 PB - ACS AN - OPUS4-50351 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kus, J. A1 - Kaufhold, S. A1 - Klosa, D. A1 - Jianwei, M. A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Suhendra, Suhendra T1 - Coal fire geothermometer: Controlling the extent and temperature field of underground coal fire zones T2 - 2nd International conference on coal fire research (ICCFR2) CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2010-05-19 KW - Coal fires KW - Coal petrography KW - Coal mineralogy PY - 2010 SN - 978-3-86012-397-3 IS - Part 2 - Geosciences SP - 75 EP - 85 AN - OPUS4-21459 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Kus, J. A1 - Kaufhold, S. A1 - Klosa, D. A1 - Jianwei, M. A1 - Schmidt, Martin A1 - Suhendra, Suhendra T1 - Coal Fire Geothermometer: Controlling the Extent and Temperature Field of Underground Coal Fire Zones T2 - 2nd International Conference on Coal Fire Research ICCFR2 CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2010-05-19 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-21388 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -