Network dynamics in nanofilled polymers

The mixture of nanoparticles and polymers can dramatically alter the dynamics of the resulting system, but the detail is still under debate. Here, Baeza et al. show the formation of a percolated network by polymer bridging between adjacent nanoparticles as nanoparticle concentration increases.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Guilhem P. Baeza, Claudia Dessi, Salvatore Costanzo, Dan Zhao, Shushan Gong, Angel Alegria, Ralph H. Colby, Michael Rubinstein, Dimitris Vlassopoulos, Sanat K. Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11368