Synthesis of nanocomposite polymers with targeted properties.

本项目旨在通过水中活性自由基聚合来合成新型纳米复合聚合物，并了解聚合物微结构和纳米形态控制材料性能的方式。这将提供使科学成为可能，从而使具有目标特性的纳米材料可以为生物医学和特种涂层应用而量身定做，从而省去了目前的试错方法。该项目的创新是在水中合成了复杂的聚合物结构，并首次对此类材料进行了定量和定性的结构-性能关联。这也将加深对这些纳米复合材料形成机制的理解。

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.