Nanoscopic materials nanometer scale length

Our experiments and simulations to date have revealed that, above approximately 100 nm, the mechanical behavior of nanoscopic polymeric structures can be described using continuum formalisms and bulk material properties. At smaller length scales, our results suggest that amorphous polymeric structures exhibit dimension-dependent, anisotropic, elastic constants. Furthermore, our calculations of local elastic constants indicate the existence of mechanical inhomogeneities on the scale of a few nanometers. 

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