Polymers with the same chemical composition can provide different properties by reducing
the dimension or simply by altering their nanostructure. The recent literature reports …

Polymer nanotechnology allows manipulating materials microstructure, morphology and
compositional variation on the nanometer scale. Thus, it is able to provide materials for …

Deuterium, a stable hydrogen isotope, has been playing important roles in many scientific
areas, including polymer science. The developments of deuteration science and polymer …

Field-cycling (FC) NMR relaxometry is a very important source of information on dynamical
and structural features of molecules. It is especially well established for liquids and …

Dynamic properties play an important role in designing functional polymer nanocomposites,
impacting molecular transport and phase separation kinetics. When nanoparticle (NP) size …

The mechanical properties of particulate nanocomposites strongly depend upon the particle
dispersion, as well as on the closely related properties in thin polymer films covering the …

We report on the effect of interfacial energy on the glass temperature, T g, of several
amorphous polymers with various glass temperatures and polymer/substrate interactions …

Field-cycling NMR relaxometry is a well-established technique for probing molecular
dynamics in a frequency range from typically a few kHz up to several tens of MHz. For the …

Macromolecular motion is reduced in crowded polymer nanocomposites. Tracer diffusion is
measured for deuterated polystyrene (dPS) into a polystyrene (PS): silica nanoparticle (NP) …

Abstract One-dimensional (1-D) polymer nanostructures have attracted much attention due
to their unique properties and many potential applications in areas such as sensors …