Entropy-driven segregation of nanoparticles to cracks in multilayered composite polymer structures

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-233

  Gupta, Suresh ^a   Zhang, Qingling ^a   Emrick, Todd ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^b   Russell, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; MULTILAYERS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

ENTROPY DRIVEN SEGREGATION; MULTILAYER COMPOSITES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; POLYMERIC LAYERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33644629829     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1582     Document Type: Article

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