Ultrastable nanostructured polymer glasses

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 337-343

  Guo, Yunlong ^a   Morozov, Anatoli ^a   Schneider, Dirk ^b   Chung, Jae Woo ^a   Zhang, Chuan ^a   Waldmann, Maike ^a   Yao, Nan ^a   Fytas, George ^b,c   Arnold, Craig B ^a   Priestley, Rodney D ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; GLASS; POLYMER FILMS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

AMORPHOUS SOLIDS; GLASSY POLYMERS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; KINETIC STABILITY; MATRIX ASSISTED PULSED LASER EVAPORATION; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSTRUCTURED POLYMERS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 84862776665     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3234     Document Type: Article

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