Quantitative equivalence between polymer nanocomposites and thin polymer films

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 693-698

  Bansal, Amitabh ^a,b   Yang, Hoichang ^a,c   Li, Chunzhao ^a,d   Cho, Kilwon ^c   Benicewicz, Brian C ^a,d   Kumar, Sanat K ^a   Schadler, Linda S ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^d Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS TRANSITION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASTICS FILLERS; THIN FILMS;

PARTICLE SURFACES; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMER-PARTICLE INTERFACES;

PLASTIC FILMS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ELASTICITY; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYSTYRENES; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 26944502042     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1447     Document Type: Article

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