Viscoelasticity of Amorphous Polymer Nanocomposites with Individual Nanoparticles

The famous lecture on nanotechnology presented by Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman at Caltech in 1959 is generally considered as the beginning of the nanotechnology era [1]. He talked about miniaturization of engines, computers, small-scale recording of information, biological systems, and about nano-structured materials and forces determining the behavior of objects on the nano-scale. Currently, nano-materials are in the focus of interest of many researchers and nano-filled polymers have been used in a variety of applications for a long time (e.g., tires).