Time-resolved SAXS studies during reverse sequence polymerisation-induced self-assembly

We wish to perform time-resolved SAXS (TR-SAXS) studies to characterise the evolution in copolymer morphology during each of the two stages of a highly counter-intuitive new synthetic route to diblock copolymer nano-objects which we term reverse sequence polymerisation-induced self-assembly (PISA). This powerful characterisation technique will complement our very promising initial TEM, DLS, electrophoresis and GPC data and is expected to underpin a high-profile publication on this topic.