Some artistic license has been employed in preparing the background images used on pages of this website. These images are therefore reproduced here in their original form.
Polystyrene-silica colloidal nanocomposite particles prepared with very high silica aggregation efficiencies by in situ polymerisation of styrene in the presence of a commercially available ultrafine silica sol.
Image courtesy Steve Armes, added to the High Polymer website August 2007.
Graphical output from a computer simulation of a polymeric microcapsule bursting on a substrate. The red dots are tracer particles that follow the streamlines of the external, flowing fluid.
Image courtesy Anna Balazs, added to the High Polymer website August 2007.
Polythene chain conformation model.
Image courtesy Tony Ryan, added to the High Polymer website August 2007.
The background image on this page is based on the graphical output from a computer simulation of a polymeric microcapsule bursting on a substrate. The red dots are tracer particles that follow the streamlines of the external, flowing fluid. Courtesy Anna Balazs (more about this image).
