Advanced Macromolecular Architecture via Selenium

该项目的总体目标是通过利用硒元素进行安全、无气味的多组分反应，极大地扩大硒基大分子化学的规模和范围。该项目将开发新的方法和技术，以大幅降低成本，同时提高工业弹性体（如Spandex）的工人和环境安全性。接下来，该项目将利用硒对臭氧分解的敏感性来设计一种新的仪器，这种仪器能够非常精确地监测聚合物材料中的氧化损伤。最后，硒的独特反应性将使其成为下一代智能材料，这种材料将能够完全重组其分子水平的结构。

The overarching aim of this project is to drastically expand the scale and scope of selenium-based macromolecular chemistry via safe, odor-free multicomponent reactions utilising elemental selenium. This project will develop new methods and techniques in drastically reducing the cost while increasing worker and environmental safety of industrial elastomers such as Spandex. Next the project will exploit selenium's sensitivity to ozonolysis to design a new instrument capable of extreme precision in monitoring oxidative damage in polymeric materials. Finally, selenium's unique reactivity will lend itself towards the next generation of smart materials which will be capable of completely reorganizing their structure down to the molecular level.