The thermomechanical responses of polymers, which provide limitations to their practical
use, are favourably altered by the addition of trace amounts of a nanofiller. However, the …

Pressure‐sensitive adhesives (PSAs) are finding increasing applications in various areas of
industry and medicine. PSAs are a special class of viscoelastic polymers that form strong …

Microcellular foams, closed-cell polymer foams with cells of order 10 μm, have been studied
for over two decades. These foams have shown significant improvements in mechanical …

The field of nanometre scale mechanical forming has seen rapid development with the
arrival of high resolution, massive parallel techniques such as nanoimprint. Despite a …

We report the fabrication of both single-scale and hierarchical superhydrophobic surfaces,
created by exploiting the spontaneous wrinkling of a rigid Teflon AF film on two types of …

Conjugated polymers are attracting worldwide attention due to their potential for use as the
active layer in advanced electronic, optoelectronic, and energy harvesting applications, and …

The squeezing of polymers in narrow gaps is important for the dynamics of nanostructure
fabrication by nanoimprint embossing and the operation of polymer boundary lubricants. We …

At first, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses of reference and carbon dioxide
plasma treated polyethylene terephthalate (PET) were carried out. Significant chemical …

We report the effects that geometrical confinement has on both the glass transition
temperature, T g, and the crystalline phase transition temperature, T c, for two widely studied …

The glass transition temperature (T g) of cross-linked polystyrene (PS) is directly compared
to that of its linear precursor polystyrene-co-vinylbenzocyclobutene (PS–VBCB) in bulk and …