Chemistry of hybrid multifunctional and multibranched composites

SERGIO DAVID GARCIA SCHEJTMAN; VERONICA BRUNETTI; MARISA MARTINELLI; MIRIAM C. STRUMIA; VIJAY KUMAR THAKUR; MANJU KUMARI THAKUR; RAJU KUMAR GUPTA

Hybrid Polymer Composite Materials: Structure and Chemistry

Elsevier

Año: 2017; p. 31 - 63

Hybrid multifunctional materials are the critical link between present technologies and future applications and their synthesis and characterization thus constitute important steps towards the development of more complex structures in polymer and synthetic organic chemistry. Composites are attractive scaffolds for a variety of high-end applications, conforming a fascinating toolkit with huge potential for adaptation to operate efficiently in a wide variety of architectures, sizes and features, ultimately having a major influence on the final properties and applications of the materials.Over the last three decades, research on hyperbranched polymers and surface functionalization has been accorded high priority in polymer technology because their inherent properties are quite different from those of conventional polymers.In this chapter, we highlight the synthetic approaches and hierarchical strategies used to manipulate the shape, architecture and morphology of nanostructures assembled or covalently bonded to specific substrates such as inorganic and highly crossslinked organic polymers. Special attention is given to structure/property relationships deriving from the controlled design of multibranched and multifunctional materials, emphasizing the importance of dendritic effects on different hybrid structures.