Patterning Viscous Polymeric Nanocomposites (VIDEO)
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Researchers are excited about poloxamers, a group of oddly-behaving polymer materials that are liquid at low temperature and a gel at higher temperatures. Because of their interesting behavior, these gels show promise as a matrix medium for arrangements of nanoparticles. But it is very difficult to image nanoparticles in gels. Ames Laboratory has developed a new microscopy approach for imaging gel nanocomposites in their natural state, which will reveal more useful information about their assembly and properties.
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US Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory
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