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 …

Joining dissimilar materials such as plastics and metals in engineered structures remains a
challenge. Mechanical fastening, conventional welding and adhesive bonding are examples …

Thin films with a nanometer‐scale thickness are of great interest to both scientific and
industrial communities due to their numerous applications and unique behaviors different …

Thick unidirectional fiber reinforced RTM6 epoxy resin specimens were processed by resin
transfer molding and tested in transverse compression. Homogenized response from …

Understanding the mechanical properties of polymers at the nanoscale is critical in
numerous emerging applications. While it has been widely shown that the glass transition …

Ion-containing perfluorinated polymers possess unique viscoelastic properties, excellent
proton conductivity, and nanophase-segregated structure all arising from the clustering of …

We demonstrate the accurate nanoscale mapping of near-surface loss and storage moduli
on a polystyrene–polypropylene blend with contact resonance force microscopy (CR-FM) …

We present a quantitative method for determining the viscoelastic properties of materials
with nanometer spatial resolution. The approach is based on the atomic force acoustic …

The inherently fragile nature of ultrathin polymer films presents difficulties to the
measurement of their mechanical properties, which are of interest in packaging, electronics …

Confinement of polymers to nanoscale dimensions can dramatically impact their physical
properties. Substantial efforts have focused on the glass transition temperature (Tg) of …