Silver Nanoparticle on Various Synthetic Polymer Matrices: Preparative Techniques, Characterizations, and Applications

Polymer nanocomposites achieved significant attention in recent years and also have become essential materials in modern nanotechnologies. This interest arises as a result of their outstanding performance, design flexibility, higher properties compared to constituent materials, low life cycle cost, and enormous applicability of nanocomposites in various engineering and industrial fields. The polymer nanocomposites are advanced functional materials that constitute nanoparticles/nanofillers dispersed inside the polymer matrix forming in a core-shell structure. The shape of these reinforcement varies (like fibers, platelets, spheroids) at least should have the dimension in the range of 1–50 nm. For manufacturing, nanocomposites follow strict requirements in each step, such as controlled/optimized mixing, stabilized dispersion, and orientation of the dispersed phase should be controlled for all multi-phase systems.