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FUNCTIONAL POLYMER BLENDS Another area of current research is the development and application of functional polymer blends. Rather than designing and synthesizing new, complex functional macromolecules, minor fractions of a functional additive are blended with an inert matrix polymer in order to create (often after rather specific processing protocols) a new material with a unique or unusual property matrix. One key project is focused on the design, synthesis, processing, and characterization of polymer materials with integrated mechanical deformation sensors. Materials with self-assessing capabilities are being investigated, in which photoluminescence is employed as the general sensing principle. The approach is based on the incorporation of small amounts of fluorescent dyes into conventional polymers and relies on the formation of nanoscale aggregates of these sensor molecules in the polymer matrix. The equilibrium phase behavior of these systems can be influenced via the dyes chemical structure and the materials composition. The kinetic aspects of aggregate formation can primarily be manipulated via the processing protocol. Therefore the supramolecular architecture of the targeted polymer/dye nanocomposites can be very well controlled. The approach further exploits that mechanical deformation of these materials leads to shear-induced mixing, which transforms the nanophase-separated systems into molecular mixtures. Because the sensor molecules are tailored to form excimers when aggregated, this transition is concomitant with a pronounced shift of the emission color. We have extensively investigated blends of various host polymers and minor amounts of highly photoluminescent oligo(phenylene vinylene) dyes. The dyes are tailored to exhibit strong tendencies for excimer formation and thus the emission characteristics of the blends strongly depend on the extent of molecular aggregation of the PL guest molecules. Bathochromic shifts of up to ~150 nm are observed when c