Unexpected Molecular Weight Effect in Polymer Nanocomposites

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Cheng, Shiwang ^a   Holt, Adam P ^b   Wang, Huiqun ^b   Fan, Fei ^b   Bocharova, Vera ^a   Martin, Halie ^b   Etampawala, Thusitha ^b   White, B Tyler ^a   Saito, Tomonori ^a   Kang, Nam Goo ^b   Dadmun, Mark D ^b   Mays, Jimmy W ^b   Sokolov, Alexei P ^a,b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS TRANSITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES;

DYNAMIC EFFECTS; INTERFACIAL LAYER; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT EFFECT; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER NANOPARTICLES; SEGMENTAL RELAXATION;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 84956597928     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.038302     Document Type: Article

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