Polymer networks are complex systems consisting of molecular components. Whereas the
properties of the individual components are typically well understood by most chemists …

This article reviews recent literature on polymer nanocomposites using advanced
indentation techniques to evaluate the surface mechanical properties down to the nanoscale …

Devices that respond to negligibly small fluctuations in environmental conditions will be of
great value for the realization of more sustainable, low-power-consumption actuators and …

We provide an overview of the basic concepts of scaling and dimensional analysis, followed
by a review of some of the recent work on applying these concepts to modeling instrumented …

Nanoindentation has become a commonplace tool for the measurement of mechanical
properties at small scales, but may have even greater importance as a technique for …

Self-healing coating based on metallopolymers are prepared and fully characterized. Iron
bisterpyridine complexes are incorporated into a polymer network based on methacrylates …

Nanoindentation has recently emerged as a powerful tool for measuring nano-and
microscale mechanical properties in tissues and other biomaterials. This technique has …

Homogeneously dispersed organic–inorganic hybrid nanocomposites can be obtained by
increasing the interfacial interactions between both components via the formation of …

Instrumented indentation, also known as depth-sensing indentation or nanoindentation, is
increasingly being used to probe the mechanical response of materials from metals and …

Glass is a material with essentially unlimited application possibilities. This second edition of
a comprehensive reference in glass science, points out the correlation between the …