Nanoparticle Polymer Composites: Where Two Small Worlds Meet

By A. Balazs, T. Emrick, T. P. Russell. Science, 2006

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Polymer Nanocomposites: The “Nano” Effect on Mechanical Properties (2007, background): “These terms include the entropic interaction among nanofillers, including excluded volume interactions, and the depletion interaction between polymer chains and nanofillers.(2,3) Polymer chains in the vicinity of nanofillers are stretched, thus decreasing the conformational entropy of chains.”
Dynamics of polymer segments, polymer chains, and nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposite melts: A review (2020, background): “Compared to composites with micron-sized fillers, the se of nanoparticles (NPs) drastically increases the NP-polymer nterfacial area and decreases NP-NP separations at the same conentration of filler [1,2].”