Model polymer nanocomposites provide an understanding of confinement effects in real nanocomposites

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-282

  Rittigstein, Perla ^a   Priestley, Rodney D ^a   Broadbelt, Linda J ^a   Torkelson, John M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POLYMER FILMS; SILICA;

CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; PHYSICAL AGEING; SILICA NANOPARTICLES;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 34047124771     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1870     Document Type: Article

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