ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a review on the confinement of surfactanttreated nanoparticles into one block of the block copolymer matrix. While most of surfactant-treated nano-elements confined into the block copolymer domains are isotropic in shape (i.e., 3D nanoparticles), the selective incorporation of 2D and 1D surfactant-treated nanoparticles into the nanostructured block copolymer domains is not so easy due to steric problems between the geometry of the nanoparticles and the nanostructure domains of the block copolymer host.
