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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 52, Issue 14, Pages 8357-8361Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-017-1113-7
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- G.M.J. Schmidt Minerva Center of Supramolecular Architectures at the Weizmann Institute
- China-Israel Science Foundations
- Livio Norzi Professorial Chair in Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute
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In this article, the authors present their point of view on whether an analogy can be drawn between nano and classical microcomposites. Their opinion corresponds with a 25-year-old opinion article by Calvert and is based on their own extensive studies and a large body of studies in the scientific literature. They propose that polymer nanocomposites are in fact quasi-homogeneous molecular blends, which ought to be regarded as molecular composites or self-reinforced polymers. Hence, the micromechanical models of classical composites may not generally apply to nanocomposites, where-instead-the interactions on a molecular scale between the nanoparticles and the polymer matrix control the properties. A few examples, including of nucleation and confinement by nanoparticles, are discussed.
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