High-transparency polymer nanocomposites enabled by polymer-graft modification of particle fillers

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 14434-14442

  Dang, Alei ^a,b   Ojha, Satyajeet ^a,d   Hui, Chin Ming ^c   Mahoney, Clare ^a   Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof ^c   Bockstaller, Michael R ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ESTERS; FILLERS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); NANOCOMPOSITES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; STYRENE; TRANSPARENCY;

APPLICATION OF POLYMERS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; METHYL METHACRYLATES; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PARTICLE DISPERSION; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 84916212561     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5037037     Document Type: Article

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