Revealing the interface in polymer nanocomposites

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3391-3399

  Zammarano, Mauro ^a,b   Maupin, Paul H ^c   Sung, Li Piin ^b   Gilman, Jeffrey W ^b   McCarthy, Edward D ^b   Kim, Yeon S ^b   Fox, Douglas M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; fluorescence; FRET; interface; nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

COLOR-CODED IMAGES; ENERGY TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; FRET; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; INTERFACE; INTERFACE FORMATION; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LENGTH SCALE; MACRO SCALE; MODEL SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE FEATURES; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; REAL-SPACE OBSERVATIONS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURE PROPERTY;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISPERSIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 79955405798     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn102951n     Document Type: Article

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