Organic-Inorganic Shish-Kebabs: Nanocrystal Kebabs Periodically Assembled on Stretched Flexible Polymer Shish

We report an unconventional yet general strategy to craft an exciting variety of 1D necklace-like nanostructures comprising uniform functional nanodisks periodically assembled along a stretched flexible polymer chain by capitalizing on judiciously designed amphiphilic worm-like diblock copolymer as nanoreactors. These nanostructures can be regarded as organic-inorganic shish-kebabs, in which nanodisk kebabs periodically situated on a stretched polymer shish. Simulations based on self-consistent field theory reveal that the formation of organic-inorganic shish-kebabs is guided by the self-assembled elongated star-like diblock copolymer constituents constrained on the highly stretched polymer chain.