Nanoindentation of polymers: an overview

By M. Vanlandingham, J. Villarrubia, W. Guthrie, G. Meyers. 2001

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Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC): A renewable nano-material for polyvinyl acetate (PVA) adhesive (2012, unknown): “Comparing elastic moduli (E) of polymers from bulk measurements and indentation tests, results often show that Ebulk < Esurface [25].”
Nanomechanical characterisation of solid surfaces and thin films (2003, background): “…et al., 1966; Walker, 1973; Chu and Li, 1977; Hooper and Brookes, 1984; Li et al.,1973; ASME, 1979; Blau and Lawn, 1986; Bhushan and Gupta, 1997; VanLandingham et al., 2001; Fisher- 1991; Bhushan et al., 1996b), stress relaxation (Hart and Solomon, 1973; Chu and Li, 1980; Hannula et…”
Characterization of viscoelastic properties of polymeric materials through nanoindentation (2005, background): “Substitution of eqs (4)–(6) into eqs (7) and (8), and solving simultaneously for the material stiffness and damping yields”
A buckling-based metrology for measuring the elastic moduli of polymeric thin films (2004, background): “Nanoindentation has proved successful in materials such as ceramics and some metals, but is challenged by soft materials, especially those of submicrometre thickness, or which exhibit significant viscoelastic behaviou”