“…Undoubtedly, silica nanoparticles are the most common and most widely used nanoparticles modified via the SI-ATRP method with various monomers including methyl acrylate (MA) [65], methyl methacrylate (MMA) [66], 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) [67], styrene [68,69], 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate [70], γ-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (PMPTS) [71], ( N , N -dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) [72,73,74,75], poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate [76,77], NIPAM [78,79,80,81], tert -butyl acrylate ( t BA) [35,82], di(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (DEGMA) [83] and other monomers [54,80,84,85,86,87]. These hybrid nanomaterials combine the advantages of nanoparticles including its rigidity and stability and organic polymer layers characterized by flexibility, processability and functionality to enlarge the potential applications such nanohybrids.…”