0 a chemical compound with a high molecular weight, formed by joining the molecules of two or more compounds --
They can range from self-healing materials for space equipment to the easy design of copolymers for ion-exchange membranes in fuel cells, nanoscale lithography, etc.
Statistical field theories are widely used to describe systems in polymer physics or biophysics, such as polymer films, nanostructured block copolymers or polyelectrolytes.
For example, using olefin polymerization catalysts, copolymers can be formed with ethylene or styrene by polymerizing only the norbornene double bond.
The nanoscale structures created from block copolymers could potentially be used for creating devices for use in computer memory, nanoscale-templating and nanoscale separations.
Styrene is the precursor to polystyrene and several copolymers.
The functional group of the anion exchange resin is a quaternary ammonium group attached to an inert styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer.
Since 2000, the topics of the biophysics of mucin, and phase transitions and dynamics in block copolymers have occupied her research interests.
Common reaction mechanisms used to synthesize these copolymers include free-radical polymerization, anionic polymerization, atom-transfer radical-polymerization, and living polymerization techniques.
