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SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF POLYACRYLATES AND THEIR NANOCOMPOSITES BY
ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION
Thesis submitted to
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for the award of the degree
of
Doctor of Philosophy
by
Haimanti Datta
Under the guidance of
Dr. Nikhil K. Singha and Prof. Anil K. Bhowmick
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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the thesis entitled “SYNTHESIS AND PROPERTIES OF POLYACRYLATES AND THEIR NANOCOMPOSITES BY ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION”, submitted by Ms. Haimanti Datta to Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is a record of bona fide research work under our supervision and is worthy of consideration for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Institute.
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(Nikhil K.Singha) (Anil K. Bhowmick)
Date:
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DECLARATION
I certify that
a. the work contained in this thesis is original and has been done by me under the guidance of my supervisors.
b. the work has not been submitted to any other Institute for any degree or diploma.
c. I have followed the guidelines provided by the Institute in preparing the thesis.
d. I have conformed to the norms and guidelines given in the Ethical Code of Conduct of the Institute.
e. whenever I have used materials (data, theoretical analysis, figures, and text) from other sources, I have given due credit to them by citing them in the text of the thesis and giving their details in the references. Further, I have taken permission from the copyright owners of the sources, whenever necessary.
(Haimanti Datta)
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Dedicated to my parents
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Acknowledgments
This PhD thesis is based on research work carried out at the Rubber Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India from January 2005 until July 2008.
First of all, I would like to acknowledge my supervisors Dr. Nikhil K. Singha and Prof. Anil K. Bhowmick, Rubber Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, for their esteemed guidance, enthusiasm, critical comments and generous co-operation throughout this investigation to meet all the challenges during the course of the research.
I am grateful to the Heads of the Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur, for extending facilities and official supports in the tenure of PhD program. I am equally thankful to all the faculty, teaching and non-teaching staff of this center for their ever- helping cooperation.
I would like to acknowledge the help and co-operation from Dr. Madhuchhanda Maiti, Dr. Anirban Ganguly, Dr. Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Dr. Rajatendu Sengupta, Dr.
Sambhu Bhadra, Mr. Anjan Biswas, Mr. Suman Mitra, Mr. Jinu Jacob George, Mr.
Mithun Bhattacharya, Mr. Dinesh Kumar, Mr. Pradip K. Maji, Mr. Ganesh Ch. Basak, Mrs. Anusuya Choudhury, Ms. Moumita Roy, Ms. Amalin Kavitha, Mr. M. Thirumal, Mr. Rajesh Babu, Mr. Sanjoy Datta, Mr. Dhrubo J. Haloi, Mr. Satya S. Datta, – my lab mates from Rubber Technology Center. Thanks to all my friends in India and abroad for their timely help and their warm friendship will be cherished forever.
I am grateful to my family- my parents and my brother, for their consistent encouragement, moral support and sacrifice in undertaking this PhD.
This thesis could not have been accomplished without the unconditional love and
