Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Direct observation of polymer surface mobility via nanoparticle vibrations

  • Hojin Kim,
  • Yu Cang,
  • Eunsoo Kang,
  • Bartlomiej Graczykowski,
  • Maria Secchi,
  • Maurizio Montagna,
  • Rodney D. Priestley,
  • Eric M. Furst,
  • George Fytas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04854-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Measuring polymer surface dynamics is a challenge of importance to applications ranging from pressure-sensitive adhesives to nanopatterning. Here, the authors introduce a methodology of Brillouin light spectroscopy to reveal polymer surface mobility via nanoparticle vibrations.