Controlling the thermomechanical behavior of nanoparticle/polymer films

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 8163-8173

  Zhao, Dan ^a   Schneider, Dirk ^b   Fytas, George ^b,c   Kumar, Sanat K ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brillouin light scattering; glass transition temperature; nanoparticle polymer interface; polymer nanocomposites; solvent effect; thermomechanical properties

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANNEALING; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; METASTABLE PHASES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PHONONS; POLYMERS; SILICA; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SOLVENTS; TEMPERATURE;

BRILLOUIN LIGHT SCATTERING; POLY(2-VINYLPYRIDINE) (P2VP); POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; SINGLE GLASS TRANSITION; SOLVENT EFFECTS; THERMO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSVERSE ACOUSTIC PHONONS;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84906706941     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn503486e     Document Type: Article

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