Design and synthesis of novel functional block copolymers and their applications

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Functional block copolymers are valuable in polymer science due to their potential applications in many areas such as surface modification, drug delivery, polymeric catalysts, and templates for controlling/growing various nanostructures. Functional block copolymers can be prepared by various 'living' polymerization techniques such as ATRP (atom transfer radical polymerization), NMRP (nitroxide mediated radical ploymerization), RAFT (reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer), ROMP (ring opening metathesis polymerization), and post-chemical modifications.
The context of this thesis will be focused on ;
1) The design, synthesis and characterization of unique novel functional polymers with the development of synthetic methodologies, the incorporation of the desired functionalities into selective regions of polymer segments
2) Incubating suitable electro-, photo-, and reactive properties into block copolymers
3) Studying their functionality-nanostructure relationships
4) Fine-tuning their functionality by post chemical-modification