Entropy driven spontaneous formation of highly porous films from polymer-nanoparticle composites

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 42, 2009, Pages

  Korampally, Venumadhav ^a   Yun, Minseong ^a   Rajagopalan, Thiruvengadathan ^a   Dasgupta, Purnendu K ^b   Gangopadhyay, Keshab ^a   Gangopadhyay, Shubhra ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE; ENERGY-EFFICIENT PROCESS; ENTROPIC GAIN; HIGH SURFACE AREA; HYDROPHOBIC FILM; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; NANOPOROUS MATERIALS; POLYMER COMPOSITE; POLYMER SYSTEMS; POROUS FILM; RAPID FABRICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING; SILSESQUIOXANES; SIMPLE METHOD; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

BIOSENSORS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

POLYMER FILMS;

NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; POLYMETHYLSILSESQUIOXANE; POLYPROPYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENERGY YIELD; ENTROPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 70349683051     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/42/425602     Document Type: Article

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