Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0455181

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0455181

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Rubbery nanoparticles for improved plastics, additives and adhesives through novel low-temperature polymerization. This project will create the enabling science for producing better pressure-sensitive adhesives, leather treatment, bitumen additives and engineering plastics, by the first-ever synthesis of acrylic latex at low temperatures. This will allow certain reaction processes to predominate that will result in molecular architectures that are very different from those currently made. The result will be enhanced material properties, such as better-wearing leather coatings, greater scratch and shock resistance in vehicle and domestic plastics (with reduced environmental insult in manufacture and usage), improved endurance for bitumen road surfaces, and layered packaging that needs less adhesive per unit of strength.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 23-12-2004

End Date: 23-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $180,632.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Synthesis Of Macromolecules | Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry | Polymerisation Mechanisms

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Processed skins, leather and leather products not elsewhere classified | Other | Polymeric materials (e.g. paints) |

Other Keywords

Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry | Other | Polymeric materials (e.g. paints) | Polymerisation Mechanisms | Processed skins, leather and leather products not elsewhere classified | Synthesis Of Macromolecules

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