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Comb-Like Acrylic-Based Polymer Latexes
Containing Nano-Sized Crystalline or
Liquid Crystalline Domains
Ehsan Mehravar
Supervised by: J. M. Asua and J. R. Leiza
Chemical Engineering Group
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
Donostia-San Sebastián
(2016)
(cc)2016 EHSAN MEHRAVAR (cc by-nc-nd 4.0)

To My Parents,
To Samane

Acknowledgments

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisors, Prof. José M.
Asua and Prof. Jose R. Leiza for their guidance, support, supervision and patience.
This dissertation would never have been accomplished without their encouragement
and their valuable ideas. I must say that I was lucky that I had the opportunity to work
under their supervision.
Special thanks to all the professors of the Chemical Engineering Group,
Professors María Paulis, Maria J. Barandiaran, Jose C. de la Cal, Radmila Tomovska,
David Mecerreyes, Alejandro Müller and Jacqueline Forcada for the great scientific
discussions and for encouraging me during these years. I would like to show my
gratitude to Ines who always helped me for all the paperwork and problems during
these years. I cannot find words to express my gratitude to you Ines. Thank you very
much. Onintza I appreciate your help during these years.
I would like to thanks the Industrial Liason Program for the Polymerization in
dispersed media for their financial support and their great ideas and discussions in
ILP meetings.
I would like to show my gratitude to Dr. Bernd Reck for his hospitality,
support and his interest in my work during the time I spent in BASF. I would like to
thank many people in BASF company specially Dr. Frank Pirrung for technical
support in miniemulsification process, Dr. Joost Leswin for technical support in
formulating paints, Dr. Michael A. Gross and Dr. Jörg-Alexander Dimmer for
technical support in adhesive formulations; Ms. Christina Laue for assistance in
synthesizing the latexes, Ms. Melanie Hook for assistance in studying the adhesive
properties and Mr. Steffen Weber for assistance in paint preparation and studying the
paint properties.
I would like to express my gratitude to people in Materials Physic Center
(CFM): Prof. Aranxe Arbe and Dr. Amaia Iturrospe for X-Ray measurements, data
analysis and discussions; Prof. Angel Alegria and Mr. Gerardo Martinez for dielectric
measurements and data analysis.
I would like to thank Prof. Antxon Santamaria and Dr. Mercedes Fernandes for
technical support and discussions in DMTA analysis. Special thanks to Dr. Gracia
Patricia Leal, for TEM and SEM analysis and to Dr. Mariano Barrado Meléndez and
Maria T. Miranda for TEM analysis. To Dr. Jose I. Mirando and Dr. Iñaki Santos for
their kind help with the NMR analysis. And to Dr. Alba Gonzales for water vapor
transmission rate and oxygen permeability analysis.
I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Mikel Gaztelumendi, Dr. Jon Urquijo,
Dr. Nora Arambura and Itziar Otaegi from Polymer Technology Group for sample
preparation and tensile test measurement at high temperature. And I would like to
thanks Dr. Loli Martin from Engineering Faculty for helping me in polarized optical
microscopy analysis.
I would like to extend thanks to my colleagues that I met in Polymat. It was a
pleasure knowing you all. Ali and Shaghayegh, lovely couple, thank you for your
support and friendship. Amaia, Miren, Patx, Wendy, Freddy, Karim, Alejandro,
Edurne, Paula, Pablo, Juliana, Julieta, muchas gracias por todo. Monica, Audrey and
Maitane, wish you all the best in your life and in being perfect mothers.
Ana B, Ana M, Ziortza, Jone and Joseba, I had a great time in Prague with
you. Fernando, Nick, Alex, Julie, Nerea, It´s been a pleasure knowing you all, thanks
for the good memories that we shared.
Sevilay and Mehmet, perfect Turkish couple, we had a great time together,
thanks for the delicious meatball. Gordana, thanks for the good moments that we
shared, wish you, Miki and Goran happiness in your life.
My Italian colleagues, Stefano, Francesca and Massimo, it was a pleasure
knowing you. grazie di tutto e  in bocca al lupo . Noushin, wish you all the best in
your life. Jessica and Elodie the girls who make the best cookies and pizza, bon
courage. Alicia, I enjoed you company during PRE conference in Munich (near
Munich in fact). Iñaki and Aitor, it was a pleasure knowing you guys. Veronica, good
luck with your paints. Sil, Syrung, Adrian and Bertha, wish you all the best and good
luck in your thesis. Aintzane, Garbiñe, Haritz, Daniele, Isabel, Guilia, Iñaki, Ana
sanchez, Guiomar, Nerea, Alex, Leire, Andere and Amaury, It´s been a pleasure
knowing you all.
I would like to thank all my family for their support during the whole
educational years specially my father who always encourage me to continue my
education and my beloved mother who always support me with her endless kindness
and love.
And finally, Samane, the love of my life, I was fortunate to have you here in
the last two years. Without your support I would never been able to overcome all the
problems in theses years. Thank you for your help, encouragement, happiness and
love.