Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0211003
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$125,000.00
Summary
A Facility for Probing Nanostructure in Polymers. The properties of a polymer are only partly determined by its molecular structure. It is now clear that the organization of molecular structure and phase morphology on a nano-scale has an equally important role in determining material behaviour. Increasingly this can be manipulated by judicious choice of formulation and processing variables. The polymer Nano-Structure Facility will bring together Australia's principal polymer experts in this a ....A Facility for Probing Nanostructure in Polymers. The properties of a polymer are only partly determined by its molecular structure. It is now clear that the organization of molecular structure and phase morphology on a nano-scale has an equally important role in determining material behaviour. Increasingly this can be manipulated by judicious choice of formulation and processing variables. The polymer Nano-Structure Facility will bring together Australia's principal polymer experts in this area of structure-property relations and provide them with shared access to the appropriate, modern analytical tools required to probe the nano-structure of such new materials with enhanced properties.Read moreRead less
Structure-Property Relationships of Polymers with Controlled Architecture. Mechanical properties of a polymer (e.g., how elastic it is and how it dissipates energy when compressed) govern how well it performs as an adhesive, or its behaviour when melted and shaped into a consumer item. This project aims to relate molecular architecture to mechanical properties, using new techniques which permit the creation of polymers wherein each architectural characteristic is separately controlled. This has ....Structure-Property Relationships of Polymers with Controlled Architecture. Mechanical properties of a polymer (e.g., how elastic it is and how it dissipates energy when compressed) govern how well it performs as an adhesive, or its behaviour when melted and shaped into a consumer item. This project aims to relate molecular architecture to mechanical properties, using new techniques which permit the creation of polymers wherein each architectural characteristic is separately controlled. This has the potential to develop fundamental understanding for structure-property relations for the type of branched polymers that are in common use in industry and for which adequate models do not currently exist.Read moreRead less
An Integrated Framework for Optimisation and Control of Key Product Properties in Emulsion Polymerisation. Emulsion polymerization is of major industrial importance. In addition to process efficiency, the use of water as the reactor medium provides environmental benefits. This proposal is aimed at building an integrated framework to analyse, model, control and optimise emulsion polymerisation systems in order to understand, design and operate such complex systems to obtain desired polymer produc ....An Integrated Framework for Optimisation and Control of Key Product Properties in Emulsion Polymerisation. Emulsion polymerization is of major industrial importance. In addition to process efficiency, the use of water as the reactor medium provides environmental benefits. This proposal is aimed at building an integrated framework to analyse, model, control and optimise emulsion polymerisation systems in order to understand, design and operate such complex systems to obtain desired polymer product characteristics. Complex kinetic, transport and evolution equations will be analysed and solved for predicting and controlling key product properties. This project will provide not only a significant advance in fundamental knowledge of polymerisation systems but will also enable production of cost-effective ?designer polymers? for a wide-range of applications.Read moreRead less