Irreversible adsorption at polymer/substrate interfaces has been reported to influence glassy
properties in thin films. However, consideration has yet to be extended to the nanocomposite …

Chain adsorption to nanofiller interfaces creating bound layers has become central to
understanding property changes in polymer nanocomposites. We determine the impact …

The ability to control nanoparticle location precisely within polymer matrices is becoming
increasingly important and a critical prerequisite for most applications of polymer …

We employ a fluorescence bilayer method to directly measure the glass transition
temperature (T g) of the irreversibly adsorbed layer of polystyrene (PS) buried in bulk films …

Properties of polymers in polymer nanocomposites and nanopores have been shown to
deviate from their respective bulk properties due to physical confinement as well as polymer …

The dynamic and static properties of the interfacial region between polymer and
nanoparticles have wide-ranging consequences on performances of nanomaterials. The …

We report a model system to control the dispersion and inter-particle distance of polymer-
grafted Al 2 O 3-nanoparticles in high molecular weight poly (ethylene-co-butyl acrylate) …

Due to the importance of the interface in the segmental dynamics of supported
macromolecule ultrathin films, the glass transition temperature (T g) of polystyrene (PS) …

We have developed a simple model to quantify the role of curvature on the surface
composition of polymer–nanoparticle hybrids formed as a result of the adsorption of end …

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 …