TP 2: Tracing of Elementary Processes and of Nanocomposite Growth at Twin Polymerization

• High resolution imaging of morphological structures of nanocomposites in immediate nm range
• Characterization of the morphology in the local environment with the use of electron diffraction methods
• Solving methodological problems in the preparation of TEM samples from highly porous nanocomposites
• Study of problems relating the depth resolution in analytical scanning electron microscopy of highly porous composite samples
• In-situ imaging of elementary individual molecular processes of a chemical model reaction of the type of twin polymerization on a microscopically defined substrate with scanning probe microscopy techniques (preferably UHV-STM)

Although at first glance these tasks appear to be of mainly methodical nature, they are prerequisites for microscopic examination to the fundamental understanding of twin polymerization and the mesoscopic structured material systems fabricated. In fact, these methodological issues are naturally dominating during the first project phase. Later in the project, an increasingly deeper insight into the fundamental processes of the reaction and the mesoscopic structure formation should be obtained.