Fracture toughness, strength, and elastic modulus of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)and poly(buty1 methacrylate) (PBMA)-impregnated alumina ceramics were measured as a function of polymer volume fraction, mean polymer particle size, and interfacial bonding between the polymer and ceramic. Fracture toughness was found to increase with increasing polymer volume fraction and decreasing polymer pa...

Nanocomposites composed of diblock copolymer/ferroelectric nanoparticles were formed by selectively constraining ferroelectric nanoparticles (NPs) within diblock copolymer nanodomains via judicious surface modification of ferroelectric NPs. Ferroelectric barium titanate (BaTiO3) NPs with different sizes that are permanently capped with polystyrene chains (i.e., PS-functionalized BaTiO3NPs) were...

Background and Aim: Water sorption is one of the most important properties that affects the quality of a prosthesis, and subsequently, the quality of treatment, and pa-tient’s quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the water sorption of two types of poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) using the injection-molding systems with a traditional acrylic resin base material. M...

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) bone cement has been widely used in orthopedic surgeries including total hip/knee replacement, vertebral compression fracture treatment, and defect filling. However, aseptic loosening of the interface between PMMA often leads to failure. Hence, development modified that facilitates growth into is key reducing incidence loosening. In this study, MgAl-layered doub...

We present here an experimental and theoretical study of the application of two-dimensional exchange nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ~NMR! to the investigation of the rotational diffusion of colloidal particles. The theoretical discussion includes the nature of the NMR frequency time-correlation function where the NMR interaction is represented by the chemical shift anisotropy ~CSA!. Ti...

Elastic constants and cross-sectional dimensions of imprinted nanolines of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) on silicon substrates are determined nondestructively from finite-element inversion analysis of dispersion curves of hypersonic acoustic modes of these nanolines measured with Brillouin light scattering. The results for the cross-sectional dimensions, under the simplifying assumption of v...

Thin films of mixtures of asymmetric poly(styrene-block-methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA) diblock copolymers and PMMA homopolymers with cylindrical PMMA microdomains oriented normal to the substrate surface were used to couple optical modes in the Kretschmann configuration, and their optical properties were investigated by optical waveguide spectroscopy (OWS). The nanopore formation in the block...

Novel PMMA-STO-CNT matrices were created by opened-tip vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes (VA-MWCNTs) with conformal coatings of strontium titanate (STO) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). Emission threshold of 0.8 V/μm was demonstrated, about 5-fold lower than that of the as-grown VA-MWCNTs. This was obtained after considering the related band structures under the perspective o...

We demonstrate a method for embossing titania sol--gel precursor with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) molds to make thin films of titania that have dense arrays of 35--65 nm diameter pores, whose features are 1 order of magnitude smaller than those previously demonstrated for sol--gel molding. We show that the high modulus of PMMA is necessary to preserve small features with high aspect ratios...

Human serum albumin (HSA) adsorbed to thin films of phase-segregated polystyrene (PS)-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) was examined under hydrated and dry environments with scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM). Quantitative mapping of the protein and polymer components at 30 nm spatial resolution was achieved using near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectral contrast at...