POSS polymers: physical properties and biomaterials applications

J Wu, PT Mather - 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Research into polymers incorporating polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) has
intensified during the past several years, revealing new fundamental polymer physics, new …

Nanoparticle polymer composites: where two small worlds meet

AC Balazs, T Emrick, TP Russell - Science, 2006 - science.org
The mixing of polymers and nanoparticles is opening pathways for engineering flexible
composites that exhibit advantageous electrical, optical, or mechanical properties. Recent …

Inhibition of dewetting of thin polymer films

L Xue, Y Han - Progress in Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Strategies for the inhibition of dewetting of thin polymer films are reviewed. First, a brief
introduction to the theory and the dynamics of dewetting of thin polymer films is given …

Structurally diverse dendritic libraries: A highly efficient functionalization approach using click chemistry

M Malkoch, K Schleicher, E Drockenmuller… - …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The high fidelity and efficiency of Click chemistry are exploited in the synthesis of a library of
chain end functionalized dendritic macromolecules. In this example, the selectivity of the Cu …

Ionic liquid-based preparation of cellulose− dendrimer films as solid supports for enzyme immobilization

M Bagheri, H Rodríguez, RP Swatloski… - …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Surface-active cellulose films for covalent attachment of bioactive moieties were achieved by
codissolution of cellulose with polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers in an ionic liquid …

Self-assembled multilayers of nanocomponents

RS Krishnan, ME Mackay, PM Duxbury, A Pastor… - Nano …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We show it is possible to assemble nanoparticle− polymer layers in a controllable manner
dictated by the difference in nano-object morphology and dielectric properties. A thin (10 …

Nanoscale adsorbed structures as a robust approach for tailoring polymer film stability

N Jiang, J Wang, X Di, J Cheung, W Zeng, MK Endoh… - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The stability or wettability of thin polymer films on solids is of vital interest in traditional
technologies as well as in new emerging nanotechnologies. We report here that nanoscale …

Stability and dewetting of metal nanoparticle filled thin polymer films: control of instability length scale and dynamics

R Mukherjee, S Das, A Das, SK Sharma… - ACS …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We investigate the influence of gold nanoparticle addition on the stability, dewetting, and
pattern formation in ultrathin polymer− nanoparticle (NP) composite films by examining the …

Mesoscale morphologies in polymer thin films

M Ramanathan, SB Darling - Progress in Polymer Science, 2011 - Elsevier
In the midst of an exciting era of polymer nanoscience, where the development of materials
and understanding of properties at the nanoscale remain a major R&D endeavor, there are …

Interplay of substrate surface energy and nanoparticle concentration in suppressing polymer thin film dewetting

S Roy, D Bandyopadhyay, A Karim… - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is known that dewetting of a polystyrene (PS) thin film on a silicon substrate gets
completely suppressed upon addition of small amount of C60 nanoparticles (NP). 1 The NPs …