Network dynamics in nanofilled polymers

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Baeza, Guilhem P ^a   Dessi, Claudia ^a,b   Costanzo, Salvatore ^a,b   Zhao, Dan ^c   Gong, Shushan ^d   Alegria, Angel ^e   Colby, Ralph H ^d   Rubinstein, Michael ^f   Vlassopoulos, Dimitris ^a,b   Kumar, Sanat K ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

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

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE; NANOPARTICLE;

MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; PROBE; RHEOLOGY; SILICA; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; CHEMISTRY; FLOW KINETICS; FRICTION; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

FRICTION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84964663138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11368     Document Type: Article

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