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Protein-Functionalized Hairy Diamond Nanoparticles

2009; American Chemical Society; Volume: 25; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/la9009509

1520-5827

Si Amar Dahoumane, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alain Thorel, Jean‐Paul Boudou, Mohamed M. Chehimi, Claire Mangeney,

Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders

Diazonium salt chemistry and atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) were combined in view of preparing new bioactive hairy diamond nanoparticles containing, or potentially containing, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) fluorescent centers (fluorescent nanodiamonds, or fNDs). fNDs were modified by ATRP initiators using the electroless reduction of the diazonium salt BF4−,+N2−C6H4−CH(CH3)−Br. The strongly bound aryl groups −C6H4−CH(CH3)−Br efficiently initiated the ATRP of tert-butyl methacrylate (tBMA) at the surface of the nanodiamonds, which resulted in obtaining ND-PtBMA hybrids. The grafted chain thickness, estimated from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), was found to increase linearly with respect to time before reaching a plateau value of ca. 2 nm. These nanoobjects were further hydrolyzed into ND-PMAA (where PMAA is the poly(methacrylic acid) graft) and further decorated by bovine serum albumin through the 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide/N-hydroxysuccinimide (EDC/NHS) coupling procedure.