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Embedding of Noble Metal Nanoclusters into Polymers as a Potential Probe of the Surface Glass Transition
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This article is published in Macromolecules.The article was published on 2001-01-30. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanoclusters & Noble metal.read more
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Copper Nanoparticle/Polymer Composites with Antifungal and Bacteriostatic Properties
Nicola Cioffi,Luisa Torsi,Nicoletta Ditaranto,Giuseppina Tantillo,Lina Ghibelli,Luigia Sabbatini,Teresa Bleve-Zacheo,Maria D'alessio,P. Giorgio Zambonin,Enrico Traversa +9 more
TL;DR: A spinnable coating capable of releasing metal species to a broth of living organisms in a controlled manner is an extremely interesting material for a number of biotechnological applications as discussed by the authors.
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Metal-Polymer Nanocomposites for Functional Applications†
TL;DR: In this paper, the preparation of polymer-based nanocomposites consisting of metal nanoparticles in a polymer matrix and the resulting functional properties is discussed, where emphasis is placed on vapor phase deposition, which allows the incorporation of alloy clusters with well defined composition and tailored filling factor profiles.
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Synthesis of thermally stable carboxymethyl cellulose/metal biodegradable nanocomposites for potential biological applications.
TL;DR: An environmentally benign approach, which provides facile entry to the production of multiple shaped noble nanostructures without using any toxic reducing agent such as sodium borohydride, hydroxylamine hydrochloride, and so forth, and which uses a benign biodegradable polymer CMC, could find widespread technological and medicinal applications.
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Antifungal activity of polymer-based copper nanocomposite coatings
Nicola Cioffi,Luisa Torsi,Nicoletta Ditaranto,Luigia Sabbatini,Pier Giorgio Zambonin,Giuseppina Tantillo,Lina Ghibelli,Maria D'alessio,Teresa Bleve-Zacheo,Enrico Traversa +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a copper-polymer nanocomposites are proposed as antifungal spinnable coatings with controlled copper-releasing properties, and the tests of the bioactivity show that fungal growth is inhibited on the nanocomposition-coated plates.
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Direct imaging of nanoparticle embedding to probe viscoelasticity of polymer surfaces.
TL;DR: Atomic force microscopy was used to study the embedding of gold nanoparticles into the surface of polystyrene films, and results suggest a more mobile surface region on the order of 3-4 nm thick, with a lower glass transition temperature than the bulk.
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Influence of an impenetrable interface on a polymer glass-transition temperature.
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On the influence of hard walls on structural properties in polymer glass simulation
J. Baschnagel,Kurt Binder +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, structural properties of a dense polymer melt confined between two hard walls are investigated over a wide range of temperatures by dynamic Monte Carlo simulation using the bond-fluctuation lattice model.
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Glass transition of polystyrene near the surface studied by slow-positron-annihilation spectroscopy
TL;DR: This paper measured the Doppler broadening energy spectra of positron annihilation using a variable mono-energetic positron beam as a function of the positron energy and temperature in polystyrene.