Nanoparticles with designed morphology for surface-coating applications

由于环境和健康原因，具有零挥发性有机含量和有机乳浊剂的显著改进的水性涂料是非常可取的。生产这种涂料所需的科学一直难以捉摸。USyd和Dulux将合作实现这些涂料，方法是使用澳大利亚开发的平台技术，这些技术允许在分子和纳米级控制聚合物结构。这将为我们提供制造具有结构纳米颗粒的手段，这些纳米颗粒的形貌被认为是无法实现的，这是消除涂料中有害成分的关键。

Significantly improved water-based paints, with zero volatile organic content and organic opacifiers, are highly desirable for environmental and health reasons. The science needed to produce such paints has been persistently elusive. USyd and Dulux will collaborate to achieve these paints by using Australian-developed platform technologies that allow polymer architecture to be controlled at molecular and nanoscale levels. This will give us the means to make structured nanoparticles with morphologies that had been regarded as unachievable, and that are the key to dispensing with harmful ingredients in paints.