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Taking lessons from the book

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Taking lessons from the book

Ball, Philip
Nature Materials , Volume 4 (9) – Sep 1, 2005
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Taking lessons from the book

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NEWS & VIEWS fi lms . In their system the nanoparticles are poorly MATERIAL WITNESS wetted by the polymer in the absence of any surface treatment. Drawing on the two-layer model for thin fi lms, one might conjecture that the reduction Taking lessons in T observed in these systems would scale with the ratio of the particle surface area to the polymer volume. By considering particle aggregates as from the book single particles of larger diameter, the authors calculated this ratio from...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2005 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
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1476-1122
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1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat1474
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Abstract

NEWS & VIEWS fi lms . In their system the nanoparticles are poorly MATERIAL WITNESS wetted by the polymer in the absence of any surface treatment. Drawing on the two-layer model for thin fi lms, one might conjecture that the reduction Taking lessons in T observed in these systems would scale with the ratio of the particle surface area to the polymer volume. By considering particle aggregates as from the book single particles of larger diameter, the authors calculated this ratio from electron micrograph When the bicycle was voted by Britons last year images and plotted T reduction as a function of as the greatest invention, some technology the inverse ratio (volume/surface area). Th ey fi nd experts were dismayed. As a keen cyclist, I was that, comparing nanocomposite systems to thin reluctant to complain myself. More frustrating, fi lms of equal surface-to-volume ratio (such as the however, was the time span considered: the two systems depicted schematically in Fig. 1), the past 250 years, perhaps on the basis that older inventions nanocomposites exhibit a greater T suppression. would be mere historical curiosities by now. On the contrary, Most strikingly, by equating the harmonic average this eliminated some of

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Published: Sep 1, 2005

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