When cooled or pressurized, polymer melts exhibit a tremendous reduction in molecular
mobility. If the process is performed at a constant rate, the structural relaxation time of the …

It is well recognized that nanocomposites formed by adding nanoparticles to polymers can
have significantly enhanced properties relative to the native polymer. This review focuses on …

A recurring challenge in the field of nanocomposites is to control the spatial distribution of
nanoparticles (NPs) in a polymer matrix. This issue is of critical importance since it is now …

The advances in understanding the dynamics of both the physically and chemically
reversible networks are summarized from a rheological perspective. The focus is placed on …

Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) has become an
indispensable tool for engineering the structure and properties of polymer/inorganic and …

Polymer nanocomposites are a class of materials that consist of a polymer matrix filled with
inorganic/organic nanoscale additives that enhance the inherent macroscopic (mechanical …

Polymer membranes are critical to many sustainability applications that require the size-
based separation of gas mixtures. Despite their ubiquity, there is a continuing need to …

Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of a composite consisting of an ungrafted or a
grafted spherical silica nanoparticle embedded in a melt of 20-monomer atactic polystyrene …

Synthesizing patchy particles with predictive control over patch size, shape, placement and
number has been highly sought-after for nanoparticle assembly research, but is fraught with …

The morphological structure of mixtures of homopolymers with inorganic nanoparticles, onto
which polymer chain ends are grafted, is described herein. In the bulk, at very low grafting …