Growth of hydrophilic polymer chains inside mesoporous silica micro-spheres

Abstract

This master thesis consists of three topics: first, polymerization environmental effect when both anionic and cationic monomers are polymerized in the mesopores (with the pore diameters in the range of 2-50nm) of silica microspheres; and second, study of the ionmer-loaded silica microspheres with focusing on the interfacial behaviors, and third, investigation of grafting anionic ionmer chains to the silica microspheres and characterization of their fluid dynamic behaviors and interfacial properties.