Structural relaxation of polymer nanospheres under soft and hard confinement: Isobaric versus isochoric conditions

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5365-5373

  Guo, Yunlong ^a   Zhang, Chuan ^a   Lai, Christine ^a   Priestley, Rodney D ^a   D'Acunzi, Maria ^b   Fytas, George ^b,c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

confinement; core shell nanoparticles; glass transition; nanoparticles; physical aging; structural relaxation; TNM model

Indexed keywords

AGING TEMPERATURES; BULK GLASS; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; INTERFACIAL EFFECTS; ISOCHORIC CONDITIONS; NANOCONFINEMENTS; PHYSICAL AGING; POLYMER NANOSPHERES; THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; TNM MODEL;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GLASS; NANOPARTICLES; POLYSTYRENES; SILICA; STRUCTURAL RELAXATION;

GLASS TRANSITION;

GLASS; NANOSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HARDNESS; SUSPENSION; TIME; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

GLASS; HARDNESS; NANOSPHERES; POLYSTYRENES; SILICON DIOXIDE; SUSPENSIONS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 79961076089     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201751m     Document Type: Conference Paper

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