2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Designing the Co-continuous Morphology of Multi-component Polymers and Application to Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes
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20350107
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Polymer/Textile materials
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYATA Takaaki (Q TRANCONG) Kyoto Institute of Technology, 工芸科学研究科, 教授 (50188827)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 高分子混合系 / 共連続構造 / ナノチューブ / 高分子ネットワーク / 電気伝導性 |
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| Research Abstract |
The main purpose of this study is to generate and control the co-continuous morphologies of binary as well as ternary polymer mixtures by using photochemical reactions. Since photochemical reactions can be temporally and spatially induced by irradiation, we found a method to control spatially and temporally phase separation of polymer mixtures by using the newly developed "Computer-Assisted Irradiation" (CAI) method. Finally, by taking advantages of various co-continuous morphologies generated by irradiation, we were able to generate 3D networks of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in binary and ternary polymer blends, suggesting a new way to produce conducting polymers.
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Research Products
(18 results)
