A series of Diels–Alder (DA) crosslinked polymethacrylate networks covering a broad range of glass‐transition temperatures (
The construction of nanoscopic materials by synthetic methodologies that iterate covalent and supramolecular interactions has been developed over the past three decades as a powerful method to afford complex functional materials. Indeed, the present study was nearly lost in the archives of dissertation research completed in 2001, which revealed nanoscale conformational dynamics in the segmental reorganization, and partial inversion, of topologically shell crosslinked knedel‐like (SCK) nanoparticles. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci.
- Award ID(s):
- 9974457
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10457577
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Polymer Science
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2642-4150
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 204-214
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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