ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a few research works done mostly by Prof. Iñaki Mondragon and their co-workers on the fabrication and characterization of advanced multifunctional materials based on nanostructured thermosetting materials, described in detail in Chapters 5, 6, and 7, as template for dispersion and localization of different nano-objects such as nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), microfibrillated cellulose and others. The chapter
focuses on novel strategies to achieve simple, flexible and highly versatile approaches to design advanced multifunctional hybrid nanostructured thermosetting materials. 8.1 IntroductionDuring the past decade, multicomponent thermosetting systems have been widely investigated in order to reach new requirements in the field of nanotechnology. Thermosetting materials based on epoxy resins [1], especially thermoset systems modified with block copolymers, have been studied [1-18], because block copolymers offer the possibility to control self-assembling at the nanoscale in designed materials and optimize their properties as described in detail in Chapters 5, 6 and 7.
