| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M30579/01 |
| Title: |
JREI DETERMINATION OF REFRACTIVE INDEX INCREMENTS OF NOVEL POLYMERS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Holmes, Professor AB |
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Chemistry |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
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JREI |
| Starts: |
19 July 1999 |
Ends: |
18 July 2002 |
Value (£): |
12,721
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| Materials Characterisation |
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Novel families of polymers will be prepared in the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis for a range of applications extending through rigid rod polymers for optoelectronic devices such as LEDs, field effect transistors, photovoltaic devices and sensors. Other classes of materials to be developed include architecturally interesting macromolecules with controlled microstructure, polydispersity and crystallinity, surfactants and colloids, liquid crystalline materials, auxetic materials, branched polymers and surfactants. All these new materials require rigorous characterisation including absolute molecular weight determination. Light scattering techniques are well suited for these purposes, but since all the polymers are quite novel structures the concentration dependence of refractive index must be measured for each new material. This application is to provide the Melville laboratory with an Optilab refractometer and associated flow cell and syringe pump to determine refractive index increments. The resource will enable the Melville Laboratory to become a regional centre of excellence for light scattering methods for molecular weight determination and to support numerous academic and industrial initiatives engaged in research endorsed by recent Foresight policy.
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http://www.cam.ac.uk |