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Application of Quantum Beams to Polymer Science and Engineering
Polymer Journal is proud to present a special issue on the Application of Quantum Beams to Polymer Science and Engineering, which brings together a series of articles with specially solicited topical reviews. The accompanying web focus provides additional links to related articles in this subject area from across Nature Publishing Group.
Articles
Polarized X-ray scattering reveals non-crystalline orientational ordering in organic films
B. A. Collins, J. E. Cochran, H. Yan, E. Gann, C. Hub, R. Fink, C. Wang, T. Schuettfort, C. R. McNeill, M. L. Chabinyc & H. Ade
Nature Materials (2012) 11 337–343; doi:10.1038/nmat3310
Ultrastable nanostructured polymer glasses
Yunlong Guo, Anatoli Morozov, Dirk Schneider, Jae Woo Chung, Chuan Zhang, Maike Waldmann, Nan Yao, George Fytas, Craig B. Arnold & Rodney D. Priestley
Nature Materials (2012) 11 1536–543; doi:10.1038/nmat3310
Probing and repairing damaged surfaces with nanoparticle-containing microcapsules
Katrina Kratz, Amrit Narasimhan, Ravisubhash Tangirala, SungCheal Moon, Ravindra Revanur, Santanu Kundu, Hyun Suk Kim, Alfred J. Crosby, Thomas P. Russell, Todd Emrick, German Kolmakov & Anna C. Balazs
Nature Nanotechnology 7 87–90 doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.235
High strain rate deformation of layered nanocomposites
Jae-Hwang Lee, David Veysset, Jonathan P. Singer, Markus Retsch, Gagan Saini, Thomas Pezeril, Keith A. Nelson & Edwin L. Thomas
Nature Chommunications 3 1164 (2011) doi:10.1038/ncomms2166
In situ small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering measurements on a blend of deuterated and hydrogenated polyethylenes during uniaxial drawing FREE
Go Matsuba, Chie Ito, Yunfeng Zhao, Rintaro Inoue, Koji Nishida and Toshiji Kanaya
Polymer Journal Advance online publication, August 1, 2012;doi:10.1038/pj.2012.143
Highly oriented and ordered double-helical morphology in ABC triblock terpolymer films up to micrometer thickness by solvent evaporation FREE
Yukari Oda, Takaho Shibata, Hiroyuki Tsujimoto, Shokyoku Kanaoka and Sadahito Aoshima
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 567–572; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.66
Nanocasting nanoporous inorganic and organic materials from polymeric bicontinuous microemulsion templates FREE
Brad H Jones and Timothy P Lodge
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 131–146; doi:10.1038/pj.2011.136
Novel entropic elasticity of polymeric materials: why is slide-ring gel so soft? FREE
Kohzo Ito
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 38–41 doi:10.1038/pj.2011.185
Dependence of the swelling behavior of a pH-responsive PEG-modified nanogel on the cross-link density FREE
Goshu Tamura, Yuya Shinohara, Atsushi Tamura, Yusuke Sanada, Motoi Oishi, Isamu Akiba, Yukio Nagasaki, Kazuo Sakurai and Yoshiyuki Amemiya
Polymer Journal (2012) 44 240–244 doi:10.1038/pj.2011.123
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