The lightweight and high-strength functional nanocomposites are important in many
practical applications. Natural biomaterials with excellent mechanical properties provide …

Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

Polymer nanocomposites with nanoparticles dispersed in polymer matrices have attracted
extensive attention due to their significantly improved overall performance, in which the …

The past two decades have seen atomic force microscopy (AFM) evolve from an
experimental technique to probe simple surface topography to one that can spatially map …

For almost a decade, growing experimental evidence has revealed a strong correlation
between the properties of nanoconfined polymers and the number of chains irreversibly …

The glass transition temperature (T g) of polymer thin films, one of the most important
parameters to characterize the relaxation behavior of polymer chains in a thin film, has been …

Polymer adsorption proceeds through a wide variety of metastable states due to kinetic
constraints originating from the pinning of segments on solid interfaces, creating an …

Two challenging scientific disciplines, ie, the physics of glasses [Anderson, Science 267,
1615 (1995); Kennedy and Norman, Science 309, 75 (2005)] and interface chemistry …

The adsorbed layer on a solid surface plays a crucial role in the dynamics of
nanoconfinement polymer materials. However, the influence of the adsorbed layer is …

In this work, polymer dynamics of the weakly attractive poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA)/
silica nanocomposites with different molecular weights of the matrix, interaction strength …