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Nature Materials 4, 651 - 652 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1470
Nanocomposites: Softer at the boundary
Anne M. Mayes1
- Anne M. Mayes is at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. e-mail: amayes@mit.edu
Abstract
A comparative study of silica-filled polystyrene and thin polystyrene films offers a new framework both for quantifying the typical shift in the glass-transition temperature of such systems, and prospects for the design of new nanocomposites.
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