Chain conformation in polymer nanocomposites with uniformly dispersed nanoparticles

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages

  Crawford, M K ^a   Smalley, R J ^a   Cohen, G ^a   Hogan, B ^a   Wood, B ^a   Kumar, S K ^b   Melnichenko, Y B ^c   He, L ^c   Guise, W ^a,d   Hammouda, B ^e  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN CONFORMATIONS; CHAIN DIMENSIONS; DISPERSED NANOPARTICLES; MISCIBLE MIXTURES; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYSTYRENE MELTS; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL; UNIFORM DISPERSIONS;

NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMER MELTS; POLYSTYRENES; SILICA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; POLYSTYRENES; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SILICON DIOXIDE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84877337746     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.196001     Document Type: Article

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