Controlling the thermomechanical propert
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Amitabh Bansal; Hoichang Yang; Chunzhao Li; Brian C. Benicewicz; Sanat K. Kumar;
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We show that the thermomechanical properties of polymer nanocomposites are critically affected by polymerβparticle wetting behavior. Silica nanoparticles grafted with dense polystyrene brushes of degree of polymerization 1050 are blended with polystyrene melts to form nanocomposites. It