Polymer nanocomposites containing anisotropic metal nanostructures as internal strain indicators

Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1461-1477

  Bernabò, Marco ^a   Pucci, Andrea ^a   Ramanitra, Hasina Harimino ^a   Ruggeri, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dichroic properties; Polymer nanocomposite films; Silver nanorods and nanowires

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BEHAVIORS; DICHROIC PROPERTIES; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; PACKAGING APPLICATIONS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; SILVER NANORODS; SILVER NANOSTRUCTURES; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES;

ANISOTROPY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOWIRES; POLYMERIC FILMS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SILVER;

NANORODS;

EID: 79960846089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma3021461     Document Type: Article

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