Nanoparticles with designed morphology for surface-coating applications

由于环境和健康原因，非常需要具有零挥发性有机物含量和有机遮光剂的显著改进的水基涂料。生产这种涂料所需的科学一直是难以捉摸的。USyd和多乐士将合作，通过使用澳大利亚开发的平台技术来实现这些涂料，这些技术允许在分子和纳米级水平上控制聚合物结构。这将为我们提供制造结构化纳米颗粒的方法，这些纳米颗粒的形态被认为是无法实现的，这是免除油漆中有害成分的关键。

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.