Characterization of star nanogels by advanced transmission electron microscopy

该项目将提供一个极好的机会，将墨尔本大学聚合物科学小组和北卡罗莱纳州立大学聚合物形态学小组的研究专长结合起来，开发和表征具有独特大分子结构的新型星形纳米凝胶。该项目的成功将揭示这些分子的绝对结构，所提出的研究不仅在该领域的前沿研究中具有智力挑战，而且对这些新材料的新结构设计提供重要信息，并将其应用于许多领域，如药物输送，新膜形成，先进的高密度存储芯片以及可能的下一代汽车涂层。

This project will provide an excellent opportunity to combine research expertise from The Polymer Science Group at The University of Melbourne and The Polymer Morphology Group at North Carolina State University (NCSU) to develop and characterize novel star nanogels with unique macromolecular architectures. The success of the project will reveal the absolute structures of these molecules and the proposed studies are both intellectually challenging in the cutting-edge of leading research in the field and important to provide vital information for the design of new structures of these new materials for their application in many areas, such as drug delivery, new membrane formation, advance high density memory chips and possibly the next generation of automotive coating.