nature materials volume 8 article 1

Polymer chain dynamics and glass transition in athermal polymer/nanoparticle mixtures -

Hyunjoon Oh & Peter F. Green

doi:10.1038/nmat2354

Tailoring the properties of polymer nanocomposites—polymers incorporating nanoparticles—is essential to develop biomedical, or even electronic, applications. It is now shown that accurate control of the nanoparticle concentration in nanocomposites prepared from athermal mixtures considerably varies the physical properties with respect to the host polymer.