Phonon dispersion and nanomechanical properties of periodic 1D multilayer polymer films

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1423-1428

  Cheng, W ^a   Gomopoulos, N ^a   Fytas, G ^a,b   Gorishnyy, T ^c   Walish, J ^c   Thomas, E L ^c   Hiltner, A ^d   Baer, E ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FORTH   (Greece)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN LIGHT SCATTERINGS; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURES; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; MULTILAYER POLYMER FILMS; NANO-LAYERS; NANO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANO-STRUCTURED COMPOSITES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHONON DISPERSIONS; PHONON LOCALIZATIONS; PHONON PROPAGATION; SHEAR MODULUS; SINGLE LAYERS; SOUND VELOCITIES; SYSTEMATIC STUDIES; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MEASUREMENTS; THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS;

ACOUSTIC DISPERSION; COMPOSITE FILMS; GLASS TRANSITION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MULTILAYER FILMS; MULTILAYERS; PHONONS; POLYMERS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

POLYMER FILMS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VIBRATION;

EID: 46749119099     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl080310w     Document Type: Article

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