Your manuscript # APP-2012-07-2511 entitled "XXX" which you submitted to the Journal of Applied Polymer Science, has been reviewed. While the referees find your work of some potential interest, they have raised concerns that are sufficiently important that they preclude publication of the work in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science, at least in its present form.
In particular, we would like you to discuss the novelty and the advance in this work over a published manuscript: J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115 (22), pp 11282–11292. This work was not cited in your submission.
Should further research work allow you to address exhaustively these criticisms we would be happy to look at a revised manuscript (unless something similar has by then been accepted at our journal or appeared elsewhere).
The comments from reviewers are included at the bottom of this letter.
Please note that resubmitting your manuscript does not guarantee eventual acceptance, and that your resubmission will be subject to re-review by the reviewers before a decision is rendered.
May I take this opportunity to thank you for considering our Journal for the publication of your work. We hope that you will consider resubmitting your manuscript to the Journal.