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Controllable growth of porous structures from co-continuous polymer blend

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dc.contributor.advisor Yao, Donggang
dc.contributor.advisor Zhou, Jack
dc.contributor.author Zhang, Wei en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Griffin, Anselm
dc.contributor.committeeMember Jacob, Karl
dc.contributor.committeeMember Wang, Youjiang
dc.contributor.department Materials Science and Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2011-07-06T16:48:59Z
dc.date.available 2011-07-06T16:48:59Z
dc.date.issued 2011-04-06 en_US
dc.description.abstract Due to their large internal surface area, microporous materials have been widely used in applications where high surface activity is desired. Example applications are extracellular scaffolds for tissue engineering, porous substrates for catalytic reaction, and permeable media for membrane filtration, etc. To realize these potential applications, various techniques such as TIPS (thermal induced phase separation), particle leaching, and SFF (solid freeform fabrication) were proposed and investigated. Despite of being able to generate microporous for specific applications, these available fabrication techniques have limitations on controlling the inner porous structure and the outer geometry in a cost-effective manner. To address these technical challenges, a systematic study focusing on the generation of microporous structures using co-continuous polymer blend was conducted. Under this topic, five subtopics were explored: 1) generation of gradient porous structures; 2) geometrical confining effect in compression molding of co-continuous polymer blend; 3) microporous composite with high nanoparticle loading; 4) micropatterning of porous structure; 5) simulation strategy for kinetics of co-continuous polymer blend phase coarsening process. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39608
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Co-continuous polymer blend en_US
dc.subject Porous structure en_US
dc.subject Nanocomposite en_US
dc.subject Micro-replication en_US
dc.subject Scaffold en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Nanocomposites (Materials)
dc.subject.lcsh Nanostructured materials
dc.title Controllable growth of porous structures from co-continuous polymer blend en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Yao, Donggang
local.contributor.corporatename School of Materials Science and Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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