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Synthesis And Study Of Hybrid Organic – Inorganic Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (Poss) Based Polymers, Gunjan A, Gadodia
Synthesis And Study Of Hybrid Organic – Inorganic Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (Poss) Based Polymers, Gunjan A, Gadodia
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Hybrid organic-inorganic materials represent a new class of materials having scientific and technological potential. In this thesis, Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (POSS) are used as an inorganic building block which has been tethered to an organic polymer. POSS are silica precusors, having a well defined silsesquioxane cental core surrounded by an organic periphery which makes them compatible with monomers and possibly polymers. The objectives of this study are to (1) study the basic structures of POSS homopolymers, (2) to incorporate POSS building blocks by a bottomup approach into polymer chains and study the resulting morphologies, and (3) to study the thin …