They achieve this by spincasting mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, and annealing the samples to achieve stratification. The authors demonstrate a fine control of entropic and enthalpic ...

The CNT coating between the layers is heated with microwaves to locally anneal. (Credit ... primarily between the individual layers of polymer. This is useful because CNTs are quite sensitive ...

and annealing performance. The results showed no clear overall winner between plain PLA polymer and any specific color. Perhaps most fascinating was just how much these color additives change the ...