Synthesis of nanocomposite polymers with targeted properties.

本项目旨在通过活性自由基聚合在水中合成新型纳米复合聚合物，并了解聚合物微观结构和纳米形态控制材料性能的方式。这将提供使能科学，使具有目标特性的纳米材料可以为生物医学和特殊涂层应用量身定制，从而免除目前的试错方法。该项目的创新是在水中合成复杂聚合物结构的新方法，以及此类材料的首次定量和定性结构-性能相关性。这也将导致对这些纳米复合材料形成机制的深入理解。

This project aims to synthesise novel nanocomposite polymers by living radical polymerisation in water and to understand the way polymer microstructure and nanomorphology control material properties. This will provide the enabling science so that nanomaterials with targeted properties can be tailor-made for biomedical and speciality-coatings applications, and thus dispense with the current trial-and-error methodology. The innovations in this project are the novel synthesis of complex polymer architectures in water, and the first quantitative and qualitative structure-property correlations for such materials. This will also result in a deepened understanding of the mechanisms governing the formation of these nanocomposites.