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Patil S, Mbonu C, Chou T, Li R, Wu D, Akcora P, Cheng S. Dynamics of poly(methyl acrylate)/poly(methyl methacrylate)-grafted-Fe 3O 4 nanocomposites. SOFT MATTER 2024; 20:7970-7982. [PMID: 39348039 DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00731j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/01/2024]
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We investigated the dynamics of nanocomposites prepared through mixing poly(methyl methacrylate) grafted Fe3O4 nanoparticles (PMMA-g-Fe3O4) with poly(methyl acrylate) (PMA). A key feature here different from previous dynamics measurements of polymer nanocomposites is the different chemistry between the matrix polymer and the polymer grafts, which introduces chemical heterogeneity. Transmission electron microscopy shows clear evidence of nanoparticle clustering due to the poor miscibility between the bulk PMA and the bulk PMMA. At the same time, broadband dielectric spectroscopy measurements detect two leading relaxations, i.e. the α and α* processes, where the α process is associated with the bulk PMA and the α* process from the PMA interacting with the grafted PMMA in the nanoparticle clustering region. Interestingly, the characteristic time of α*, τα*, is slightly slower than that of the α, τα, at high temperatures, and exhibits near Arrhenius temperature dependence at low temperatures. As a result, τα* and τα cross each other in the activation plot upon cooling and τα* ≪ τα is observed at temperatures approaching the glass transition temperature of PMA. These observations suggest the presence of component dynamics and the dynamics confinement effect between PMA and PMMA in the nanoparticle clustering region, highlighting an active interaction between PMA and PMMA at the interface despite their poor miscibility. These results thus suggest new routes to control interface dynamics through immiscible polymer pairs.
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- Shalin Patil
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
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Behbahani AF, Harmandaris V. Relaxation dynamics of a liquid in the vicinity of an attractive surface: The process of escaping from the surface. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:134508. [PMID: 39360684 DOI: 10.1063/5.0231689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2024] [Accepted: 09/18/2024] [Indexed: 10/04/2024] Open
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We analyze the displacements of the particles of a glass-forming molecular liquid perpendicular to a confining solid surface using extensive molecular dynamics simulations with atomistic models. In the vicinity of an attractive surface, the liquid molecules are trapped. Transient localization of liquid molecules near the surface introduces a relaxation process related to the escape of molecules from the surface into the dynamics of the interfacial liquid layer. To describe this process, we analyze several dynamical observables of the confined liquid. The self-intermediate scattering function and the mean-squared displacement of the particles located in the interfacial layer are dominated by the process of escaping from the surface. This relaxation process is also associated with a strong heterogeneity in the mobility of the interfacial particles. The studied model liquid is hydrogenated methyl methacrylate. For the confining wall, we consider different models, namely a periodic single layer of graphene and a frozen amorphous configuration of the bulk liquid (frozen wall). Near graphene, where the liquid molecules form a layered structure and adopt parallel-to-surface orientation, a clear separation between small-scale movements of the molecules near the surface and the process of escaping from the surface is observed. This is reflected in the three-step relaxation of the interfacial layer. However, near the frozen wall, where the liquid molecules do not have a preferential alignment, a clear three-step relaxation is not seen, even though the dynamical quantities are controlled by the process of escaping from the surface.
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- Alireza F Behbahani
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion GR 71110, Greece
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- Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion GR 71110, Greece
- Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia 2121, Cyprus
- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Heraklion GR 71110, Greece
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Cheng S, Kogut D, Zheng J, Patil S, Yang F, Lu W. Dynamics of polylactic acid under ultrafine nanoconfinement: The collective interface effect and the spatial gradient. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:114904. [PMID: 38506298 DOI: 10.1063/5.0189762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024] Open
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Polymers under nanoconfinement can exhibit large alterations in dynamics from their bulk values due to an interface effect. However, understanding the interface effect remains a challenge, especially in the ultrafine nanoconfinement region. In this work, we prepare new geometries with ultrafine nanoconfinement ∼10nm through controlled distributions of the crystalline phases and the amorphous phases of a model semi-crystalline polymer, i.e., the polylactic acid. The broadband dielectric spectroscopy measurements show that ultrafine nanoconfinement leads to a large elevation in the glass transition temperature and a strong increment in the polymer fragility index. Moreover, new relaxation time profile analyses demonstrate a spatial gradient that can be well described by either a single-exponential decay or a double-exponential decay functional form near the middle of the film with a collective interface effect. However, the dynamics at the 1-2 nm vicinity of the interface exhibit a power-law decay that is different from the single-exponential decay or double-exponential decay functional forms as predicted by theories. Thus, these results call for further investigations of the interface effect on polymer dynamics, especially for interfaces with perturbed chain packing.
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- Shiwang Cheng
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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Kumar S, Rath SK, Kushwaha A, Deshpande SK, Patro TU, Harikrishnan G. Thermal evolution of a polymer-nanoparticle binary mixture. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:3036-3043. [PMID: 38180133 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04780f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2024]
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We experimentally probe the microscopic variations in a model polymer-nanoparticle (NP) binary mixture (mixture of polybutadiene and clay nanoplatelets) across a thermal evolution path for which Tevolution > Tg(polymer). The evolution of the NP dispersion, NP crystallinity, polymer chain-NP interface, and nature of polymer chain-NP interaction are mapped for a spectrum of temperatures and NP concentrations constrained by experiments. Multiple pieces of evidence indicate that thermal evolution does not influence the nature of interparticle dispersion and is also independent of NP concentration in the binary mixture. However, the NP crystalline order significantly reduces across the thermal evolution path. Thermal evolution induces a transition of a sharp polymer chain-NP interface to a diffuse interfacial layer. In contrast, an already diffuse polymer-NP interface existing in the binary mixture due to particle crowding at high NP concentrations undergoes no significant change in its nature across the evolution path. At all particle concentrations, thermal evolution changes the dominant interaction from polymer chain-polymer chain to polymer chain-NP. These insights aid in explaining the molecular origins of unique and anomalous behaviors shown by polymer-nanoparticle binary mixtures while undergoing thermal evolution.
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- Sanjay Kumar
- Department of Chemical Engineering, B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bengaluru 560 019, India
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India.
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- Polymer Division, Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Ambernath, Maharashtra, 421506, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India
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- UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400085, India
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- School of Materials and Chemical Sciences, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, 411025, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, 721302, India.
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Prabhune P, Comlek Y, Shandilya A, Sundararaman R, Schadler LS, Brinson LC, Chen W. Design of Polymer Nanodielectrics for Capacitive Energy Storage. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:2394. [PMID: 37686902 PMCID: PMC10490420 DOI: 10.3390/nano13172394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Revised: 08/05/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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Polymer nanodielectrics present a particularly challenging materials design problem for capacitive energy storage applications like polymer film capacitors. High permittivity and breakdown strength are needed to achieve high energy density and loss must be low. Strategies that increase permittivity tend to decrease the breakdown strength and increase loss. We hypothesize that a parameter space exists for fillers of modest aspect ratio functionalized with charge-trapping molecules that results in an increase in permittivity and breakdown strength simultaneously, while limiting increases in loss. In this work, we explore this parameter space, using physics-based, multiscale 3D dielectric property simulations, mixed-variable machine learning and Bayesian optimization to identify the compositions and morphologies which lead to the optimization of these competing properties. We employ first principle-based calculations for interface trap densities which are further used in breakdown strength calculations. For permittivity and loss calculations, we use continuum scale modelling and finite difference solution of Poisson's equation for steady-state currents. We propose a design framework for optimizing multiple properties by tuning design variables including the microstructure and interface properties. Finally, we employ mixed-variable global sensitivity analysis to understand the complex interplay between four continuous microstructural and two categorical interface choices to extract further physical knowledge on the design of nanodielectrics.
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- Prajakta Prabhune
- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; (P.P.); (L.C.B.)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA;
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA; (A.S.); (R.S.)
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- Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA; (A.S.); (R.S.)
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- College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA;
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- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; (P.P.); (L.C.B.)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA;
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White RP, Lipson JEG. Why Volume and Dynamics Decouple in Nanocomposite Matrices: Space that Cannot Be Accessed is Not Free. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:018101. [PMID: 37478446 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.018101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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Polymer nanocomposites have important material applications and are an ongoing focus of many molecular level investigations, however, puzzling experimental results exist. For example, specific volumes for some polymer nanocomposite matrices are 2% to 4% higher than for the neat polymer; in a pure polymer melt this would correspond to a pressure change of 40 to 100 MPa, and a decrease in isothermal segmental relaxation times of 3 to 5 orders of magnitude. However, the nanocomposite segmental dynamics do not show any speed up. We can explain this apparent uncoupling of dynamics from specific volume, and the key is to consider the system expansivity, i.e., the temperature dependence of the volumetric data, together with the concept of limiting volume at close liquid packing. Using pressure, volume, temperature data as a path to both, we are able to predict the effect of nanoadditives on the accessible, i.e., free, space in the material, which is critical for facilitating molecular rearrangements in dense systems. Our analysis explains why an increase in specific volume in a material may not always lead to faster segmental dynamics.
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- Ronald P White
- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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Tekell MC, Nikolakakou G, Glynos E, Kumar SK. Ionic Conductivity and Mechanical Reinforcement of Well-Dispersed Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolytes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023. [PMID: 37327494 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c04633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Nanoparticles are commonly added to polymer electrolytes to enhance both their mechanical and ion transport properties. Previous work reports significant increases in the ionic conductivity and Li-ion transference in nanocomposite electrolytes with inert, ceramic fillers. The mechanistic understanding of this property enhancement, however, assumes nanoparticle dispersion states─namely, well-dispersed or percolating aggregates─that are seldom quantified using small-angle scattering. In this work, we carefully control the inter-silica nanoparticle structure (where each NP has a diameter D = 14 nm) in a model polymer electrolyte system (PEO:LiTFSI). We find that hydrophobically modified silica NPs are stabilized against aggregation in an organic solvent by inter-NP electrostatic repulsion. Favorable NP surface chemistry and a strongly negative zeta potential promote compatibility with PEO and the resulting electrolyte. Upon prolonged thermal annealing, the nanocomposite electrolytes display structure factors with characteristic interparticle spacings determined by particle volume fraction. Thermal annealing and particle structuring yield significant increases in the storage modulus, G', at 90 °C for the PEO/NP mixtures. We measure the dielectric spectra and blocking-electrode (κb) conductivities from -100 to 100 °C, and the Li+ current fraction (ρLi+) in symmetric Li-metal cells at 90 °C. We find that nanoparticles monotonically decrease the bulk ionic conductivity of PEO:LiTFSI at a rate faster than Maxwell's prediction for transport in composite media, while ρLi+ does not significantly change as a function of particle loading. Thus, when nanoparticle dispersion is controlled in polymer electrolytes, Li+ conductivity monotonically, i.e., (κbρLi+), decreases but favorable mechanical properties are realized. These results imply that percolating aggregates of ceramic surfaces, as opposed to physically separated particles, probably are required to achieve increases in bulk, ionic conductivity.
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- Marshall C Tekell
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, 710 03 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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- Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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Xiong Y, Xia Z, Lu A, Chen W. Time-Resolved Extensional Rheo-NMR Spectroscopy for Investigating Polymer Nanocomposites under Deformation. Anal Chem 2023; 95:7545-7551. [PMID: 37145968 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c05788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Understanding the microstructure change of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) under elongation deformation at the molecular level is the key to coupling structure-property relationships of PNCs. In this study, we developed our recently proposed in situ extensional rheology NMR device, Rheo-spin NMR, which can simultaneously obtain both the macroscopic stress-strain curves and the microscopic molecular information with the total sample weight of ∼6 mg. This enables us to conduct a detailed investigation of the evolution of the interfacial layer and polymer matrix in nonlinear elongational strain softening behaviors. A quantitative method is established for in situ analysis of (1) the fraction of the interfacial layer and (2) the network strand orientation distribution of the polymer matrix based on the molecular stress function model under active deformation. The results show that for the current highly filled silicone nanocomposite system, the influence of the interfacial layer fraction on mechanical property change during small amplitude deformation is quite minor, while the main role is reflected in rubber network strand reorientation. The Rheo-spin NMR device and the established analysis method are expected to facilitate the understanding of the reinforcement mechanism of PNC, which can be further applied to understand the deformation mechanism of other systems, i.e., glassy and semicrystalline polymers and the vascular tissues.
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- Yuqi Xiong
- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Film, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, Sichuan, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Film, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Institute of Chemical Materials, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, Sichuan, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Film, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Zhang XZ, Lu ZY, Qian HJ. A Perspective on the Dynamics Properties in Polymer Nanocomposites. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-023-2956-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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Genix AC, Bocharova V, Carroll B, Dieudonné-George P, Chauveau E, Sokolov AP, Oberdisse J. Influence of the Graft Length on Nanocomposite Structure and Interfacial Dynamics. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:748. [PMID: 36839117 PMCID: PMC9960434 DOI: 10.3390/nano13040748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Revised: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Both the dispersion state of nanoparticles (NPs) within polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) and the dynamical state of the polymer altered by the presence of the NP/polymer interfaces have a strong impact on the macroscopic properties of PNCs. In particular, mechanical properties are strongly affected by percolation of hard phases, which may be NP networks, dynamically modified polymer regions, or combinations of both. In this article, the impact on dispersion and dynamics of surface modification of the NPs by short monomethoxysilanes with eight carbons in the alkyl part (C8) is studied. As a function of grafting density and particle content, polymer dynamics is followed by broadband dielectric spectroscopy and analyzed by an interfacial layer model, whereas the particle dispersion is investigated by small-angle X-ray scattering and analyzed by reverse Monte Carlo simulations. NP dispersions are found to be destabilized only at the highest grafting. The interfacial layer formalism allows the clear identification of the volume fraction of interfacial polymer, with its characteristic time. The strongest dynamical slow-down in the polymer is found for unmodified NPs, while grafting weakens this effect progressively. The combination of all three techniques enables a unique measurement of the true thickness of the interfacial layer, which is ca. 5 nm. Finally, the comparison between longer (C18) and shorter (C8) grafts provides unprecedented insight into the efficacy and tunability of surface modification. It is shown that C8-grafting allows for a more progressive tuning, which goes beyond a pure mass effect.
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- Anne-Caroline Genix
- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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Genix AC, Bocharova V, Carroll B, Dieudonné-George P, Chauveau E, Sokolov AP, Oberdisse J. How Tuning Interfaces Impacts the Dynamics and Structure of Polymer Nanocomposites Simultaneously. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:7496-7510. [PMID: 36700938 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c18083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Fundamental understanding of the macroscopic properties of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) remains difficult due to the complex interplay of microscopic dynamics and structure, namely interfacial layer relaxations and three-dimensional nanoparticle (NP) arrangements. The effect of surface modification by alkyl methoxysilanes at different grafting densities has been studied in PNCs made of poly(2-vinylpyridine) and spherical 20 nm silica NPs. The segmental dynamics has been probed by broadband dielectric spectroscopy and the filler structure by small-angle X-ray scattering and reverse Monte Carlo simulations. By combining the particle configurations with the interfacial layer properties, it is shown how surface modification tunes the attractive polymer-particle interactions: bare NPs slow down the polymer interfacial layer dynamics over a thickness of ca. 5 nm, while grafting screens these interactions. Our analysis of interparticle spacings and segmental dynamics provides unprecedented insights into the effect of surface modification on the main characteristics of PNCs: particle interactions and polymer interfacial layers.
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- Anne-Caroline Genix
- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095Montpellier, France
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee37831, United States
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095Montpellier, France
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee37831, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee37996, United States
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095Montpellier, France
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Rationalizing the interfacial layer in polymer nanocomposites: Correlation between enthalpy and dielectric relaxation. POLYMER 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2023.125765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Quantification of interfacial structure at nanoscale and its relationship with viscoelastic glass transition of SiO2/elastomer nanocomposites. POLYMER 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2023.125798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
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Oh SM, Kim SY. Intensified Nonequilibrium Effect of Polymer Nanocomposites with Decreasing Nanoparticle Size. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:4527-4537. [PMID: 36629148 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c20156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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What are the most important and decisive parameters that determine the structure and the property of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs)? Previous studies answered that controlling the nanoparticle interface is critical, which can be achieved with a choice of a compatible nanoparticle, a proper surface modification, and a change in the polymer chain length. In addition to these parameters, the processing condition of PNCs has recently emerged as an influential parameter for controlling PNC properties, suggesting the existence of the nonequilibrium effect of PNCs. In this regard, we chose the solvent as a main change in the processing condition and investigated the initial solvent-driven nonequilibrium effect of PNCs with varied nanoparticle (NP) sizes. We found that the type of the initial solvent is indeed crucial in determining the ultimate properties of the PNCs, and this becomes more influential as the size of NPs decreases. The decreasing size of NPs causes a conformational change in the adsorbed polymers from tightly packed layers to loosely dangling chains. This results in much greater differences in NP microstructures and rheological properties of PNCs, indicating a stronger nonequilibrium effect with smaller NPs.
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- Sol Mi Oh
- School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50 UNIST-gil, Ulsan44919, Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes, Seoul National University, 1, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul08826, Republic of Korea
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Ghanekarade A, Simmons DS. Combined Mixing and Dynamical Origins of Tg Alterations Near Polymer–Polymer Interfaces. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Asieh Ghanekarade
- Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida33544, United States
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- Department of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida33544, United States
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Sun R, Yang J, Patil S, Liu Y, Zuo X, Lee A, Yang W, Wang Y, Cheng S. Relaxation dynamics of deformed polymer nanocomposites as revealed by small-angle scattering and rheology. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:8867-8884. [PMID: 36377377 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00775d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The relaxation dynamics of polystyrene (PS)/silica nanocomposites after a large step deformation are studied by a combination of small-angle scattering techniques and rheology. Small-angle X-ray scattering measurements and rheology show clear signatures of nanoparticle aggregation that enhances the mechanical properties of the polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) in the linear viscoelastic regime and during the initial phase of stress relaxation along with accelerated relaxation dynamics. Small-angle neutron scattering experiments under the zero-average-contrast condition reveal, however, smaller structural anisotropy in the PNCs than that in the neat polymer matrix, as well as accelerated anisotropy relaxation. In addition, the degrees of anisotropy reduction and relaxation dynamics acceleration increase with increasing nanoparticle loading. These results are in sharp contrast to the prevailing viewpoint of enhanced molecular deformation as the main mechanism for the mechanical enhancement in PNCs. Furthermore, the observed acceleration of stress relaxation and reduction in structural anisotropy point to two types of nonlinear effects in the relaxation dynamics of PNCs at large deformation.
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- Ruikun Sun
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
- College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, P. R. China
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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Wang S, Luo Z, Liang J, Hu J, Jiang N, He J, Li Q. Polymer Nanocomposite Dielectrics: Understanding the Matrix/Particle Interface. ACS NANO 2022; 16:13612-13656. [PMID: 36107156 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c07404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Polymer nanocomposite dielectrics possess exceptional electric properties that are absent in the pristine dielectric polymers. The matrix/particle interface in polymer nanocomposite dielectrics is suggested to play decisive roles on the bulk material performance. Herein, we present a critical overview of recent research advances and important insights in understanding the matrix/particle interfacial characteristics in polymer nanocomposite dielectrics. The primary experimental strategies and state-of-the-art characterization techniques for resolving the local property-structure correlation of the matrix/particle interface are dissected in depth, with a focus on the characterization capabilities of each strategy or technique that other approaches cannot compete with. Limitations to each of the experimental strategy are evaluated as well. In the last section of this Review, we summarize and compare the three experimental strategies from multiple aspects and point out their advantages and disadvantages, critical issues, and possible experimental schemes to be established. Finally, the authors' personal viewpoints regarding the challenges of the existing experimental strategies are presented, and potential directions for the interface study are proposed for future research.
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- Shaojie Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Power Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Sakib N, Koh YP, Simon SL. The absolute heat capacity of polymer grafted nanoparticles using fast scanning calorimetry*. POLYM ENG SCI 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pen.26078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Nazam Sakib
- Department of Chemical Engineering Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering North Carolina State University Raleigh North Carolina USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering North Carolina State University Raleigh North Carolina USA
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Song L, Patil S, Song Y, Chen L, Tian F, Chen L, Li X, Li L, Cheng S. Nanoparticle Clustering and Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites with Non-Attractive Polymer–Nanoparticle Interactions. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Lixian Song
- State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, PR China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, PR China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Lab and CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Lab and CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environment-Friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, PR China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Lab and CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Lab and CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Gao H, Shi R, Zhu Y, Qian H, Lu Z. Coarse-grained Dynamics Simulation in Polymer Systems: from Structures to Material Properties. Chem Res Chin Univ 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-022-2080-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ezquerro CS, Aznar JMG, Laspalas M. Prediction of the structure and mechanical properties of polycaprolactone-silica nanocomposites and the interphase region by molecular dynamics simulations: the effect of PEGylation. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:2800-2813. [PMID: 35319045 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm01794b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Polymer/silica (PS) nanocomposites are, among numerous combinations of inorganic/organic nanocomposites, one of the most important materials reported in the literature and have been employed in a wide variety of applications. Due to this great interest in the scientific and industry community, knowledge about their physiochemistry allows for a better understanding of their development and improvement. One area of interest found in biopolymers is silica, where silica nanoparticles can be used to increase their mechanical properties and give them higher opportunities to replace synthetic plastics. With this aim in mind, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to predict the structure and mechanical properties of the interphase region and nanocomposite systems of polycaprolactone (PCL), a common poly(hydroxy acid) type biopolymer, reinforced with silica nanoparticles. Two types of nanoparticles were studied to assess the effect of PEGylation: hydroxyl (ungrafted) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) (grafted or PEGylated) functionalized silica. The interaction energy between the nanoparticle and the polymeric matrix was determined, showing an increase of the affinity between each component due to the PEGylation of the nanoparticle. Through the analysis of polymer density profiles, the structure and thickness of the interphase region were determined, and it was observed that PEGylation increased the interphase thickness from 10.80 Å to 13.04 Å while it decreased the peak and average polymer density of the interphase region. Using compressed and expanded molecular models of the neat PCL polymer, the mechanical properties of the interphase region were related to its density through an interpolation model, and mechanical property profiles were obtained, from which the average values of the Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio and shear modulus of the interphase region were calculated. Finally, the mechanical properties of the nanocomposites were determined by molecular mechanics simulations, showing that the silica nanoparticles increased the stiffness of the composite system to about 7-8% with respect to that of the neat polymer, having a 2.09% weight of bare silica or 2.82% weight of PEGylated silica. PEGylation did not show an additional effect on the overall mechanical properties. A mean field micromechanics model (Mori-Tanaka) corroborated the properties calculated for the interphase region using MD simulations. It was concluded that the PEGylation of the nanoparticle improved the affinity, and thus the dispersion, of the silica nanoparticles towards the PCL matrix, but with no further increase in the mechanical properties of the composite.
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- Aragon Institute of Technology ITAINNOVA, María de Luna 7-8, Zaragoza 50018, Spain.
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Senses E, Kitchens CL, Faraone A. Viscosity reduction in polymer nanocomposites: Insights from dynamic neutron and X‐ray scattering. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20210320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Erkan Senses
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Koc University Istanbul Turkey
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Clemson University Clemson South Carolina USA
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- Center for Neutron Research National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg Maryland USA
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Chehrazi E. Determination of the Thickness of Interfacial Voids in a Spherical Nanoparticles - Polymer Membrane: Fundamental Insight from the Gas Permeation Modeling. Chem Eng Res Des 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2021.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bongiardina NJ, Long KF, Podgórski M, Bowman CN. Substituted Thiols in Dynamic Thiol–Thioester Reactions. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Nicholas J. Bongiardina
- Material Science and Engineering Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, M. Curie-Sklodowska Sq. 5, Lublin 20-031, Poland
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Material Science and Engineering Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Genix AC, Bocharova V, Carroll B, Dieudonné-George P, Sztucki M, Schweins R, Sokolov AP, Oberdisse J. Direct Structural Evidence for Interfacial Gradients in Asymmetric Polymer Nanocomposite Blends. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:36262-36274. [PMID: 34291639 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c06971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Understanding the complex structure of polymer blends filled with nanoparticles (NPs) is key to design their macroscopic properties. Here, the spatial distribution of hydrogenated (H) and deuterated (D) polymer chains asymmetric in mass is studied by small-angle neutron scattering. Depending on the chain mass, a qualitatively new large-scale organization of poly(vinyl acetate) chains beyond the random-phase approximation is evidenced in nanocomposites with attractive polymer-silica interactions. The silica is found to systematically induce bulk segregation. Only with long H-chains, a strong scattering signature is observed in the q range of the NP size: it is the sign of interfacial isotopic enrichment, that is, of contrasted polymer shells close to the NP surface. A quantitative model describing both the bulk segregation and the interfacial gradient (over ca. 10-20 nm depending on the NP size) is developed, showing that both are of comparable strength. In all cases, NP surfaces trap the polymer blend in a non-equilibrium state, with preferential adsorption around NPs only if the chain length and isotopic preference toward the surface combine their entropic and enthalpic driving forces. This structural evidence for interfacial polymer gradients will open the road for quantitative understanding of the dynamics of many-chain nanocomposite systems.
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- Anne-Caroline Genix
- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 40220, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, DS/LSS, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156, F-38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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Ghanekarade A, Phan AD, Schweizer KS, Simmons DS. Nature of dynamic gradients, glass formation, and collective effects in ultrathin freestanding films. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2104398118. [PMID: 34326262 PMCID: PMC8346796 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2104398118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Molecular, polymeric, colloidal, and other classes of liquids can exhibit very large, spatially heterogeneous alterations of their dynamics and glass transition temperature when confined to nanoscale domains. Considerable progress has been made in understanding the related problem of near-interface relaxation and diffusion in thick films. However, the origin of "nanoconfinement effects" on the glassy dynamics of thin films, where gradients from different interfaces interact and genuine collective finite size effects may emerge, remains a longstanding open question. Here, we combine molecular dynamics simulations, probing 5 decades of relaxation, and the Elastically Cooperative Nonlinear Langevin Equation (ECNLE) theory, addressing 14 decades in timescale, to establish a microscopic and mechanistic understanding of the key features of altered dynamics in freestanding films spanning the full range from ultrathin to thick films. Simulations and theory are in qualitative and near-quantitative agreement without use of any adjustable parameters. For films of intermediate thickness, the dynamical behavior is well predicted to leading order using a simple linear superposition of thick-film exponential barrier gradients, including a remarkable suppression and flattening of various dynamical gradients in thin films. However, in sufficiently thin films the superposition approximation breaks down due to the emergence of genuine finite size confinement effects. ECNLE theory extended to treat thin films captures the phenomenology found in simulation, without invocation of any critical-like phenomena, on the basis of interface-nucleated gradients of local caging constraints, combined with interfacial and finite size-induced alterations of the collective elastic component of the structural relaxation process.
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- Asieh Ghanekarade
- Department of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620
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- Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Phenikaa University, Hanoi 12116, Vietnam;
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- Department of Materials Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801;
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
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- Department of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620;
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Sattar MA. Interface Structure and Dynamics in Polymer‐Nanoparticle Hybrids: A Review on Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Improved Interfaces. ChemistrySelect 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.202100831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Mohammad Abdul Sattar
- R&D Centre MRF Limited Chennai 600019 India
- Colloid and Interface Chemistry Laboratory Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600036 India
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Ge S, Samanta S, Tress M, Li B, Xing K, Dieudonné-George P, Genix AC, Cao PF, Dadmun M, Sokolov AP. Critical Role of the Interfacial Layer in Associating Polymers with Microphase Separation. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Sirui Ge
- Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- The Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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Hasheminejad K, Montazeri A, Hasheminejad H. Tailoring adhesion characteristics of poly(L-lactic acid)/graphene nanocomposites by end-grafted polymer chains: An atomic-level study. Eur Polym J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2021.110351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Foroozani Behbahani A, Harmandaris V. Gradient of Segmental Dynamics in Stereoregular Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Melts Confined between Pristine or Oxidized Graphene Sheets. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:830. [PMID: 33800419 PMCID: PMC7962820 DOI: 10.3390/polym13050830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Revised: 02/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Segmental dynamics in unentangled isotactic, syndiotactic, and atactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (i-, a-, and s-PMMA) melts confined between pristine graphene, reduced graphene oxide, RGO, or graphene oxide, GO, sheets is studied at various temperatures, well above glass transition temperature, via atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. The model RGO and GO sheets have different degrees of oxidization. The segmental dynamics is studied through the analysis of backbone torsional motions. In the vicinity of the model nanosheets (distances less than ≈2 nm), the dynamics slows down; the effect becomes significantly stronger with increasing the concentration of the surface functional groups, and hence increasing polymer/surface specific interactions. Upon decreasing temperature, the ratios of the interfacial segmental relaxation times to the respective bulk relaxation times increase, revealing the stronger temperature dependence of the interfacial segmental dynamics relative to the bulk dynamics. This heterogeneity in temperature dependence leads to the shortcoming of the time-temperature superposition principle for describing the segmental dynamics of the model confined melts. The alteration of the segmental dynamics at different distances, d, from the surfaces is described by a temperature shift, ΔTseg(d) (roughly speaking, shift of a characteristic temperature). Next, to a given nanosheet, i-PMMA has a larger value of ΔTseg than a-PMMA and s-PMMA. This trend correlates with the better interfacial packing and longer trains of i-PMMA chains. The backbone torsional autocorrelation functions are shown in the frequency domain and are qualitatively compared to the experimental dielectric loss spectra for the segmental α-relaxation in polymer nanocomposites. The εT″(f) (analogous of dielectric loss, ε″(f), for torsional motion) curves of the model confined melts are broader (toward lower frequencies) and have lower amplitudes relative to the corresponding bulk curves; however, the peak frequencies of the εT″(f) curves are only slightly affected.
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- Alireza Foroozani Behbahani
- Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, GR-71110 Heraklion, Greece
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- Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, GR-71110 Heraklion, Greece
- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, GR-70013 Heraklion, Greece
- Computation-Based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus
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DeFelice J, Lipson JEG. The influence of additives on polymer matrix mobility and the glass transition. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:376-387. [PMID: 33169780 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm01634a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In the region near an interface, the microscopic properties of a glass forming liquid may be perturbed from their equilibrium bulk values. In this work, we probe how the interfacial effects of additive particles dispersed in a matrix can influence the local mobility of the material and its glass transition temperature, Tg. Experimental measurements and simulation results indicate that additives, such as nanoparticles, gas molecules, and oligomers, can shift the mobility and Tg of a surrounding polymer matrix (even for relatively small concentrations of additive; e.g., 5-10% by volume) relative to the pure bulk matrix, thus leading to Tg enhancement or suppression. Additives thus provide a potential route for modifying the properties of a polymer material without significantly changing its chemical composition. Here we apply the Limited Mobility (LM) model to simulate a matrix containing additive species. We show that both additive concentration, as well as the strength of its very local influence on the surrounding matrix material, will determine whether the Tg of the system is raised or lowered, relative to the pure matrix. We demonstrate that incorporation of additives into the simple LM simulation method, which has successfully described the behavior of bulk and thin film glassy solids, leads to direct connections with available experimental and simulation results for a broad range of polymer/additive systems.
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- Jeffrey DeFelice
- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
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Sattar M, Patnaik A. Role of Interface Structure and Chain Dynamics on the Diverging Glass Transition Behavior of SSBR-SiO 2-PIL Elastomers. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:21191-21202. [PMID: 32875255 PMCID: PMC7450647 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Intermolecular interactions between the constituents of a polymer nanocomposite at the polymer-particle interface strongly affect the segmental mobility of polymer chains, correlated with their glass transition behavior, and are responsible for the improved dynamical viscoelastic properties. In this work, we emphasized on the evolution of characteristic interfaces and their dynamics in silica (SiO2 NP)-reinforced, solution-polymerized, styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR) composites, whose relative prevalence varied with the phosphonium ionic liquid (PIL) volume fraction, used as an interfacial modifier. The molecular origins of such interfaces were examined through systematic dielectric spectroscopy, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, and dynamic-mechanical analyses. The PIL facilitated H-bonding, cation-π, surface-phenyl, and van der Waals interfacial interactions between SSBR and SiO2 NP, thereby regulating the polymer chain dynamics, orientation, and mean-square displacement. Specifically, the mass density profiles from MD simulations revealed the dynamic gradient of polymer chains in the interfacial region as a function of radial distance from the center of mass of the SiO2 NP surface. The results showed a structuring effect to result in well-resolved density peaks at specific radial distances with the tangential orientation of styrene monomers in the vicinity of the SiO2 NP surface. These domino effects highlighted strong interfacial interactions to have an indispensable effect on the viscoelastic performance and thermal motion of SSBR molecular chains, leading to a higher glass transition temperature (T g) by ∼15 K, validating the experimental data. More importantly, our results gave new insights into the fundamental understanding of the fact that the strength of intermolecular interactions induced by PIL at the polymer-particle interface is the key to control the α-relaxation dynamics and T g optimization, desired for specific applications.
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- Mohammad
Abdul Sattar
- Colloid
and Interface Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai600036, India
- R&D
Centre, MRF Limited, MRF Road, Tiruvottiyur, Chennai 600019, India
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- Colloid
and Interface Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai600036, India
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Hornak J, Kadlec P, Polanský R. Halloysite Nanotubes as an Additive to Ensure Enhanced Characteristics of Cold-Curing Epoxy Resins under Fire Conditions. Polymers (Basel) 2020; 12:polym12091881. [PMID: 32825503 PMCID: PMC7563762 DOI: 10.3390/polym12091881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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At present, the most commonly used electrical insulating materials, including cold-curing epoxy resins, are well designed for normal operating conditions. However, new generations of materials should also be capable of withstanding extreme emergency conditions, e.g., in case of fire. For this reason, this study presents the possibilities of an improved cold-curing epoxy resin using halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) to increase its operational safety. The positive effect of HNT addition is indicated mainly in terms of the suppression of thermo-oxidation processes, which has been demonstrated by the decreases in the maximum heat flow peaks as well as the specific enthalpy values during the thermal decomposition of the epoxy resin. The observed dielectric parameters of the HNT-added materials differ only slightly from those without a filler, whereas their mechanical properties strongly depend on the amount of dispersed HNTs.
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Brinson LC, Deagen M, Chen W, McCusker J, McGuinness DL, Schadler LS, Palmeri M, Ghumman U, Lin A, Hu B. Polymer Nanocomposite Data: Curation, Frameworks, Access, and Potential for Discovery and Design. ACS Macro Lett 2020; 9:1086-1094. [PMID: 35653211 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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With the advent of the materials genome initiative (MGI) in the United States and a similar focus on materials data around the world, a number of materials data resources and associated vocabularies, tools, and repositories have been developed. While the majority of systems focus on slices of computational data with an emphasis on metallic alloys, NanoMine is an open source platform with the goal of curating and storing widely varying experimental data on polymer nanocomposites (polymers doped with nanoparticles) and providing access to characterization and analysis tools with the long-term objective of promoting facile nanocomposite design. Data on over 2500 samples from the literature and individual laboratories has been curated to date into NanoMine, including 230 samples from the papers bound in this virtual issue. This virtual issue represents an experiment of the flexibility of the data repository to capture the unique experimental metadata requirements of many data sets at one time and to challenge the authors to participate in the curation of their research data associated with a given publication. In principle, NanoMine offers a FAIR platform in which data published in papers becomes directly Findable and Accessible via simple search tools, with open metadata standards that are Interoperable with larger materials data registries, and allows easy Reuse of data, e.g. benchmarking against new results. Our hope is that with time, platforms such as this one could capture much of the newly published data on materials and form nodes in an interconnected materials data ecosystem which would allow researchers to robustly archive their data, add to the growing body of readily accessible data, and enable new forms of discovery by application of data analysis and design tools.
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- L Catherine Brinson
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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Mapesa EU, Street DP, Heres MF, Kilbey SM, Sangoro J. Wetting and Chain Packing across Interfacial Zones Affect Distribution of Relaxations in Polymer and Polymer-Grafted Nanocomposites. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Emmanuel U. Mapesa
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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Szymoniak P, Pauw BR, Qu X, Schönhals A. Competition of nanoparticle-induced mobilization and immobilization effects on segmental dynamics of an epoxy-based nanocomposite. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:5406-5421. [PMID: 32490484 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm00744g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The complex effects of nanoparticles on a thermosetting material based on an anhydride cured DGEBA/boehmite nanocomposite with different particle concentrations are considered. A combination of X-ray scattering, calorimetry, including fast scanning calorimetry and temperature modulated calorimetry, and dielectric spectroscopy was employed to study the structure, the vitrification kinetics and the molecular dynamics of the nanocomposites. For the first time in the literature, for an epoxy-based composite, a detailed analysis of the X-ray data was carried out. Moreover, the unfilled polymer was found to be intrinsically heterogeneous, showing regions with different crosslinking densities, indicated by two separate dynamic glass transitions. The glass transition temperature decreases with increasing nanoparticle concentration, resulting from a change in the crosslinking density. Moreover, on the one hand, for the nanocomposites, the incorporation of nanofiller increased the number of mobile segments for low nanoparticle concentrations, due to the altered crosslinking density. On the other hand, for higher loading degrees, the number of mobile segments decreased, resulting from the formation of an immobilized interphase (RAF). The simultaneous mobilization and immobilization of the segmental dynamics cannot be separated unambiguously. By taking the sample with the highest number of mobile segments as a reference state, it was possible to estimate the amount of RAF.
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- Paulina Szymoniak
- Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM), Unter den Eichen 87, 12205 Berlin, Germany.
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Zhang X, Wei W, Jin X, Xiong H. Chain Dimension and Dynamics of Polymers in Well-Defined Non-sticky Nanocomposites of Molecular Nanoparticle Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane/Poly(butylene oxide). Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Xinlin Zhang
- Department of Polymer Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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Musino D, Oberdisse J, Farago B, Alegria A, Genix AC. Resolving Segmental Polymer Dynamics in Nanocomposites by Incoherent Neutron Spin-Echo Spectroscopy. ACS Macro Lett 2020; 9:910-916. [PMID: 35648525 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The segmental dynamics of styrene-butadiene nanocomposites with embedded silica nanoparticles (NPs, ca. 20 vol. %) has been studied by broadband dielectric (BDS) and neutron spin-echo spectroscopy (NSE). It is shown by BDS that overlapping contributions only allow us to conclude on a range of distributions of relaxation times in simplified industrial nanocomposites formed with highly polydisperse NPs. For comparison, structurally similar but less aggregated colloidal nanocomposites have a well-defined distribution of relaxation times due to the reduced influence of interfacial polarization processes. This distribution is widened with respect to the neat polymer, without change in the position of the maximum and at most a small slowing down visible in the average time. We then demonstrate that incoherent NSE can be used to resolve small modifications of segmental dynamics of the industrial samples. By carefully choosing the q-vector of the measurement, experiments with fully hydrogenated polymer give access to the self-dynamics of the polymer in the presence of silica on the scale of approximately 1 nm. Our high-resolution measurements show that the segmental motion is slightly but systematically slowed also by the presence of the industrial filler NPs.
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- Dafne Musino
- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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- Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156, F-38042 Cedex 9 Grenoble, France
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- Departamento de Fisica de Materiales (UPV/EHU), Materials Physics Center (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel Lardizábal 5, San Sebastian 20018, Spain
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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Bailey EJ, Winey KI. Dynamics of polymer segments, polymer chains, and nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposite melts: A review. Prog Polym Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2020.101242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Popov I, Carroll B, Bocharova V, Genix AC, Cheng S, Khamzin A, Kisliuk A, Sokolov AP. Strong Reduction in Amplitude of the Interfacial Segmental Dynamics in Polymer Nanocomposites. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Ivan Popov
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier F-34095, France
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lancing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Institute of Physics, Kazan Federal University, Kremlevskaya Str. 18, Kazan, Tatarstan 420008, Russia
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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Sakib N, Koh YP, Huang Y, Mongcopa KIS, Le AN, Benicewicz BC, Krishnamoorti R, Simon SL. Thermal and Rheological Analysis of Polystyrene-Grafted Silica Nanocomposites. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Nazam Sakib
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29201, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29201, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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Cheng S, Sokolov AP. Correlation between the temperature evolution of the interfacial region and the growing dynamic cooperativity length scale. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:094904. [PMID: 33480747 DOI: 10.1063/1.5143360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Shiwang Cheng
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Yang J, Melton M, Sun R, Yang W, Cheng S. Decoupling the Polymer Dynamics and the Nanoparticle Network Dynamics of Polymer Nanocomposites through Dielectric Spectroscopy and Rheology. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Jie Yang
- College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, People’s Republic of China
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610065, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Schweizer KS, Simmons DS. Progress towards a phenomenological picture and theoretical understanding of glassy dynamics and vitrification near interfaces and under nanoconfinement. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:240901. [PMID: 31893888 DOI: 10.1063/1.5129405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The nature of alterations to dynamics and vitrification in the nanoscale vicinity of interfaces-commonly referred to as "nanoconfinement" effects on the glass transition-has been an open question for a quarter century. We first analyze experimental and simulation results over the last decade to construct an overall phenomenological picture. Key features include the following: after a metrology- and chemistry-dependent onset, near-interface relaxation times obey a fractional power law decoupling relation with bulk relaxation; relaxation times vary in a double-exponential manner with distance from the interface, with an intrinsic dynamical length scale appearing to saturate at low temperatures; the activation barrier and vitrification temperature Tg approach bulk behavior in a spatially exponential manner; and all these behaviors depend quantitatively on the nature of the interface. We demonstrate that the thickness dependence of film-averaged Tg for individual systems provides a poor basis for discrimination between different theories, and thus we assess their merits based on the above dynamical gradient properties. Entropy-based theories appear to exhibit significant inconsistencies with the phenomenology. Diverse free-volume-motivated theories vary in their agreement with observations, with approaches invoking cooperative motion exhibiting the most promise. The elastically cooperative nonlinear Langevin equation theory appears to capture the largest portion of the phenomenology, although important aspects remain to be addressed. A full theoretical understanding requires improved confrontation with simulations and experiments that probe spatially heterogeneous dynamics within the accessible 1-ps to 1-year time window, minimal use of adjustable parameters, and recognition of the rich quantitative dependence on chemistry and interface.
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- Kenneth S Schweizer
- Departments of Materials Science, Chemistry and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
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Shi R, Qian HJ, Lu ZY. Interfacial Tuning of the Cavitation and Strain-Softening Behavior of Polymer/Nanoparticle Composites in the Glassy State. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Rui Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China
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Panahi-Sarmad M, Goodarzi V, Amirkiai A, Noroozi M, Abrisham M, Dehghan P, Shakeri Y, Karimpour-Motlagh N, Poudineh Hajipoor F, Ali Khonakdar H, Asefnejad A. Programing polyurethane with systematic presence of graphene-oxide (GO) and reduced graphene-oxide (rGO) platelets for adjusting of heat-actuated shape memory properties. Eur Polym J 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2019.06.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Sattar MA, Gangadharan S, Patnaik A. Design of Dual Hybrid Network Natural Rubber-SiO 2 Elastomers with Tailored Mechanical and Self-Healing Properties. ACS OMEGA 2019; 4:10939-10949. [PMID: 31460192 PMCID: PMC6648382 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b01243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2019] [Accepted: 06/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The preparation of natural rubber (NR)-silica (SiO2) elastomeric composites with excellent mechanical properties along with better self-healing ability remains a key challenge. Inspired by the energy dissipation and repairability of sacrificial bonds in biomaterials, a strategy for combining covalent and noncovalent sacrificial networks is engineered to construct a dual hybrid network. Here, the approach used to fabricate the composites was self-assembly of NR, bearing proteins and phospholipids on its outer bioshell, with SiO2 via metal-ion-mediated heteroaggregation effected by reversible electrostatic and H-bonds. Further, covalent cross-links were incorporated by a silane coupling agent, bis [3-(triethoxysilyl) propyl] tetrasulfide. The intrinsic self-healing ability of the composite at the molecular level was studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy that unraveled the mechanism of the healing process. The synergistic effect between the molecular interdiffusion of the cross-linked NR chains and the electrostatic and H-bonding interactions imparted an exceptional self-healing characteristic to the liquid-liquid-mixing-prepared NR-SiO2 composites with improved mechanical performance. Specifically, the segmental relaxation dynamics of the healed composite was largely restricted due to increased number of ion-dipole interactions and S-S cross-links at the junction of the cut surface. We envisage that this extraordinary healing property, unreported yet, would be of great importance toward the design of novel NR-SiO2 elastomeric hybrids with superior mechanical properties.
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- Mohammad Abdul Sattar
- Colloid and Interface
Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
- R & D Centre, MRF Limited, MRF Road, Tiruvottiyur, Chennai 600019, India
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- R & D Centre, MRF Limited, MRF Road, Tiruvottiyur, Chennai 600019, India
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- Colloid and Interface
Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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Senses E, Narayanan S, Faraone A. Nanoscale Particle Motion Reveals Polymer Mobility Gradient in Nanocomposites. ACS Macro Lett 2019; 8:558-562. [PMID: 35619363 PMCID: PMC11132598 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Polymer mobility near nanoparticle surfaces has been extensively discussed; however, direct experimental observation in the nanocomposite melts has been a difficult task. Here, by taking advantage of large dynamical asymmetry between the miscible matrix and surface-bound polymers, we highlighted their interphases and studied the resulting effect on the nanoparticle relaxation using X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. The local mobility gradient is signified by an unprecedented increase in the relaxation time at length scales on the order of polymer radius of gyration. The effect is accompanied by a transition from simple diffusive to subdiffusive behavior in accord with viscous and entangled dynamics of polymers in the matrix and in the interphase, respectively. Our results demonstrate that the nanoparticle-induced polymer mobility changes in the interphases of nanocomposite melts can be extracted from the length-scale-dependent slow particle motion.
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- Erkan Senses
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul 34450, Turkey
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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Bailey EJ, Griffin PJ, Tyagi M, Winey KI. Segmental Diffusion in Attractive Polymer Nanocomposites: A Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Study. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Eric J. Bailey
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Chehrazi E, Raef M, Noroozi M, Panahi-Sarmad M. A theoretical model for the gas permeation prediction of nanotube-mixed matrix membranes: Unveiling the effect of interfacial layer. J Memb Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.10.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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