Nanostructured polymers with embedded self-assembled reactive gel networks.

Generating polymers in the presence of a self-assembling gelator with terminal double bonds yields polymeric materials with embedded reactive nano-skeletons-subsequent washing gives nanoscale imprinted materials with fibrillar architectures.

Delamination of layered double hydroxides in polar monomers: new LDH-acrylate nanocomposites.

The layered double hydroxide Mg2Al(OH)6(C12H25SO4) was delaminated to give high levels of inclusion in acrylate monomers; subsequent polymerisation of the monomers containing the LDH dispersion gave polyacrylates with the inorganic component still in the delaminated form.