Projektnummer

0057748

Zusammenfassung

The project aims at developing strategies for (i) shaping/reshaping and (ii) flawless joining of films into bulk and gradient materials. The focus lies on hierarchical self-assembly strategies, combining molecular, polymer and colloidal length-scales to prepare waterborne, cm-scale nacre-mimetics (highly reinforced, layered nanocomposites) to achieve novel macroscopic properties by control of molecular interactions. The key scientific approach uses a library of homo- and hetero-arm star polymers with selected thermo-reversible supramolecular connectors at their end groups, tethered via...