Silica- and Silsesquioxane-Containing Polymer Nanohybrids

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Pusan, Korea 

Other Metal Oxide or Metal-Like Materials Containing Polymer Nanohybrids 

Polyimide-Sihca Nanohybrids— Their Characteri2ation and Properties 143 

Macromolecules Containing Metal and Metal-Like Elements, Volume 4 Group IVA Polymers, edited by Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz, Cliaxles E. Carraher Jr., Charles U. Pittman Jr., and Martel Zeldin ISBN 0-471-68238-1 Copyright 2005 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

The incorporation of microscale, and larger, inorganic fillers into organic polymers has been well explored scientifically the decrease in size of the inorganic component into nano-scale dimensions and the simultaneous increase of the interfacial area result in nanohybrid materials that have extraordinary properties, which 

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Chapter 5 is a review of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS), hybrid POSS-organic copolymers, and POSS resin nanocomposites. Although silsesquioxanes have been known since tiie 1960s, only recently, through controlled synthesis and purification, have their structure and unique properties been determined and their useful applications been explored. This chapter is complemented by a discussion of the synthesis and properties of silica- and silsesquioxanes-containing polymer nanohybrids in Chapter 6. Chapter 7 involves a review of the preparation and characterization of siloxane-based polyviologens, polyurethanes, and divinylben-zene elastomers. 

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