Composite materials and especially polymer composites are widely used in daily life and
different industries due to their vastly different properties and design flexibility. It is known …

The viscoelastic properties of (mostly carbon black) filled elastomers are reviewed with
emphasis on the strain-dependence of the complex dynamic modulus (Payne effect) …

The dynamic mechanical measurements on several polymers filled with very fine silica
particles revealed that thesecomposites exhibit two tan< 3 peaks. One was related to the …

We are presenting a new method of processing polystyrene− silica nanocomposites, which
results in a very well-defined dispersion of small primary aggregates (assembly of 15 …

The enormous size of polymer molecules causes their molecular motions to span a broad
range of length scales and give rise to viscoelastic behaviour. This rate-dependence of the …

The nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of filled elastomers is examined in detail using a variety
of samples including carbon‐black filled natural rubbers and fumed silica filled silicone …

We review the literature concerned with the effect of proximity to a filler surface on the local
segmental mobility of polymer chains. This mobility is commonly assessed from either the …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used to examine the structure and
dynamics of a system containing an inorganic nanoparticle embedded in a polymer matrix …

Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to examine the effect of the size of a
spherical inclusion in generic model polymer nanocomposite systems. Results are …

Dielectric spectroscopy is used to measure polymer relaxation in styrene–butadiene rubber
(SBR) composites. In addition to the bulk polymer relaxation, the SBR nanocomposites also …