Abstract

Engineering at the nanoscale: a strategy for developing high performance functional polymer nanocomposites

Author(s): Sabu Thomas

In future technologies the talk will concentrate on various approaches used to engineer materials at the nanoscale for various applications. To highlight the challenges and progress, in particular, the case of clay, carbon nanostructures, metal oxides, bionanomaterials will be used . Several bio-degradable polymer systems will be considered such as rubbers, thermoplastics, thermosets and their blends for the fabrication of functional polymer nanocomposites. It mainly discusses the incompatibilising binary polymer blends, interfacial activity of nanomaterials . Various self assembled architectures of hybrid nanostructures can be made using relatively simple processes. Some of these structures offer excellent opportunity to probe novel nanoscale behavior and can impart unusual macroscopic end properties. Taking into account their multifunctional properties, the proffesor will talk about various applications of these materials. The review topics are applications of nanocellulose, chitin, clay, metal oxides, carbon nanomaterials and their hybrids.