Living Polymerization in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide / RAFT controlled living microparticles

这项研究旨在利用诺丁汉和利兹的专业知识，开发一种基于聚合物生产合成材料的新技术。我们将通过在scCO2中使用RAFT分散聚合来开发具有控制分子量的嵌段共聚物微粒的新途径。我们的方法有可能大大扩大scCO2和RAFT的应用，从而为新材料创造重要的新途径，这些新材料应该很容易扩展到商业化。我们相信我们的申请是及时的，科学效益将从两名PDRA研究人员的培训延伸到两所大学和英国plc，从而使该项目物有所值。

This research aims to harness expertise present in Nottingham and in Leeds to develop a new technique to produce synthetic materials based on polymers. We will develop novel routes to block copolymer microparticles with controlled molecular weight through use of RAFT dispersion polymerization in scCO2. Our approach has the potential to broaden significantly the application of both scCO2 and RAFT, thus creating important new routes to novel materials that should easily scale to commercialisation. We believe that our application is timely and that the scientific benefits will extend from the training of the two PDRA researchers through to the two Universities and to UK plc, thus making the project excellent value for money.