| abstract |
A surface treated particle is described that comprises a plurality of inorganic, metallic, semi-metallic, and/or metallic oxide particles and a star-graft copolymer coating with at least one of looped and linear polymeric structure on a star-graft copolymer, obtained by a heterogeneous polymerization reaction in the particle surface proximity, encapsulating at least a portion of said particles and a method for making the same. The surface treatment producing the coating comprises: Si (w, x, y, z), where: w, x, y, and z are in mole percent, tetrafunctional, trifunctional, difunctional, and monofunctional monomeric units, respectively; w, x, y, and z are about 0-15, 0-50, 5-99, and 0-5. |