Polymer chain dynamics and glass transition in athermal polymer/nanoparticle mixtures

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-143

  Oh, Hyunjoon ^a   Green, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MIXTURES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES;

DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION; ENTHALPIC INTERACTIONS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; POLYMER CHAIN DYNAMICS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; RELAXATION DYNAMICS;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 58849089281     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2354     Document Type: Article

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