Designing the Co-continuous Morphology of Multi-component Polymers and Application to Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes

本研究的主要目的是利用光化学反应产生和控制二元和三元聚合物混合物的共连续形态。由于辐射可以在时间和空间上引起光化学反应，我们找到了一种利用新发展的计算机辅助辐射(CAI)方法来控制聚合物混合物的空间和时间相分离的方法。最后，通过利用辐射产生的各种共连续形貌，我们能够在二元和三元聚合物共混物中生成多壁碳纳米管的3D网络，这为制备导电聚合物提供了一种新的方法。

The main purpose of this study is to generate and control the co-continuous morphologies of binary as well as ternary polymer mixtures by using photochemical reactions. Since photochemical reactions can be temporally and spatially induced by irradiation, we found a method to control spatially and temporally phase separation of polymer mixtures by using the newly developed "Computer-Assisted Irradiation" (CAI) method. Finally, by taking advantages of various co-continuous morphologies generated by irradiation, we were able to generate 3D networks of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in binary and ternary polymer blends, suggesting a new way to produce conducting polymers.