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Cavallo V, Roggero A, Fina A, Gerard JF, Pruvost S. P(MMA-co-MAA)/cellulose nanofibers composites: Effect of hydrogen bonds on molecular mobility. Carbohydr Polym 2024; 346:122579. [PMID: 39245480 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2024.122579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2024] [Revised: 07/24/2024] [Accepted: 08/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/10/2024]
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Cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) nanocomposites were prepared using poly(methylmethacrylate-co-methacrylic acid) (PMMA-co-MAA) to investigate the macromolecular mobility within the composite, with particular focus on the effect of H-bonding. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) were used to fully characterize the molecular mobility for which the effect of the introduction of H-bond forming moieties and the addition of CNFs (5 and 15 wt%) were assessed. Despite similar Tg values (determined by Differential Scanning Calorimetry), a deeper analysis of the relaxation times associated with the α-relaxation evidenced a significant effect induced by CNFs, which is in fact slowing down the macromolecular relaxation processes. The activation energy of the β-relaxation remained unchanged despite the introduction of MAA units in the main chain and the successive addition of CNFs. However, the latter led to the appearance at low frequencies of a new β'-relaxation correlated with the interactions between the CNF surface -OH groups and the -COOH groups of the matrix. The γ-relaxation showed a 45 % increase in activation energy from PMMA to PMMA-co-MAA + CNF nanocomposites regardless of the CNF content, due to the possibility of CNFs to interact and hinder the motion of the main chain methyl groups in α position.
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- Valentina Cavallo
- Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, UMR 5223, Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères, CEDEX, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France; Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, V.le Teresa Michel, 5, 15121 Alessandria, Italy
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, UMR 5223, Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères, CEDEX, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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- Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, V.le Teresa Michel, 5, 15121 Alessandria, Italy
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, UMR 5223, Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères, CEDEX, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, INSA Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, UMR 5223, Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères, CEDEX, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France.
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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. [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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Shi G, Geng X, Liu Y, Wu G. Nanophase Separation-Induced Anomalous Enthalpy Hysteresis in Poly( n-alkyl methacrylate)s. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gaopeng Shi
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Dielectric relaxation and glassy dynamics in poly(diisopropyl fumarate) and its copolymers with acrylate segments. POLYMER 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2022.124671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Molero G, Tsai C, Liu C, Sue H, Uenuma S, Mayumi K, Ito K. Mechanical and scratch behaviors of
polyrotaxane‐modified
poly(methyl methacrylate). J Appl Polym Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/app.51237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Glendimar Molero
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering Polymer Technology Center, Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering Polymer Technology Center, Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering Polymer Technology Center, Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering Polymer Technology Center, Texas A&M University College Station Texas USA
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences The University of Tokyo Chiba Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences The University of Tokyo Chiba Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences The University of Tokyo Chiba Japan
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Tuning the Johari-Goldstein β-Relaxation and Its Separation from α-Relaxation of Poly(n-alkyl methacrylate)s by Small Molecule-bridged Hydrogen Bonds. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-021-2595-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Ginzburg VV. Modeling the Glass Transition and Glassy Dynamics of Random Copolymers Using the TS2 Mean-Field Approach. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Valeriy V. Ginzburg
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 428 S. Shaw Lane, Room 2100, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226, United States
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Kritikos G. Exploring a unified description of the super-Arrhenius region above and below the glass transition temperature. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:6902-6913. [PMID: 32647837 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm00539h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A new approach is presented in order to check whether the hypothesis of an Arrhenius component surviving in the α-relaxation region is consistent with experimental data. The temperature dependence of the dynamics in the whole glassy regime is described by an equation which assumes an Arrhenius component in the cooperative diffusion. Based on thermodynamic arguments, the dynamic heterogeneities close to the glass transition region are related to structural heterogeneities in a manner consistent with the idea of a sigmoidal shape in the cohesion energy. By doing so, a characteristic temperature which can be identified as the glass transition temperature (Tg) emerges, while an additional parameter for the extension of the super-Arrhenius region is introduced. In the analysis of experimental data, the activation energy parameter, determined from the temperature dependence of the β-relaxation, is fixed, and the relation between the experimental and the predicted glass transition temperature is examined. The results of this comparison support the idea that dynamics above and below Tg can be described in a unified manner. The proposed model is tested against experimental data of glass-forming liquids, polymers and polymer composites. In the latter systems, it is shown that the Arrhenius-like behavior characterizing the dynamics of the polymeric bound-layer can be accounted for by such an extension of the super-Arrhenius region.
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- Georgios Kritikos
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
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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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Shi G, Liu Y, Wu G. βfast Relaxation Governs the Damping Stability of Acrylic Polymer/Hindered Phenol Hybrids. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Gaopeng Shi
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Clark AG, Salcedo Montero M, Govinna ND, Lounder SJ, Asatekin A, Cebe P. Relaxation dynamics of blends of
PVDF
and zwitterionic copolymer by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20200032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Andrew G. Clark
- Department of Physics and AstronomyTufts University Medford Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyTufts University Medford Massachusetts USA
- Facultad de CienciasUniversidad de Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyTufts University Medford Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringTufts University Medford Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringTufts University Medford Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyTufts University Medford Massachusetts USA
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Ni Y, Song H, Wilcox DA, Medvedev GA, Boudouris BW, Caruthers JM. Rethinking the Analysis of the Linear Viscoelastic Behavior of an Epoxy Polymer near and above the Glass Transition. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Yelin Ni
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering; Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering; Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering; Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering; Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering; Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100, United States
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering; Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2100, United States
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Gennaro A, Rosa AS, Cornelis P, Pfeiffer H, Disalvo EA, Wagner P, Wübbenhorst M. A compact device for simultaneous dielectric spectroscopy and microgravimetric analysis under controlled humidity. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2019; 90:125106. [PMID: 31893814 DOI: 10.1063/1.5125301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Water plays a key role in the functioning of natural and synthetic molecular systems. Despite several hydration studies, different techniques are employed individually for monitoring different physical features such as kinetics, dynamics, and absorption. This study describes a compact hydration cell that enables simultaneous dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS) and mass loss/uptake measurements in thin organic layers under controlled humidity conditions and in a wide temperature range. This approach enabled us to correlate the physical quantities obtained during the same experiment by complementary techniques. To demonstrate the performance of this device, a 200 nm thick poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) layer was measured at various relative humidity levels (0%-75%), temperatures (25-75 °C), and frequencies (DRS: 0.1 Hz-1 MHz) to study how hydration and dehydration processes affect its molecular dynamics. The results show the capability of this setup to study the changes in the PMMA film regarding the kinetics and molecular dynamics upon variation of the water content.
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- Alessia Gennaro
- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Applied Biophysics and Food Research Center (Centro de Investigaciones en Biofísica Aplicada y Alimentos, CIBAAL), National University of Santiago del Estero and National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET, RN 9 - Km 1125, 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina
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- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven, Department of Materials Engineering (MTM), Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Applied Biophysics and Food Research Center (Centro de Investigaciones en Biofísica Aplicada y Alimentos, CIBAAL), National University of Santiago del Estero and National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET, RN 9 - Km 1125, 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina
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- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics (ZMB), Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Yadigarli A, Song Q, Druzhinin SI, Schönherr H. Probing of local polarity in poly(methyl methacrylate) with the charge transfer transition in Nile red. Beilstein J Org Chem 2019; 15:2552-2562. [PMID: 31728169 PMCID: PMC6839560 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.15.248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The permittivity of polymers and its spatial distribution play a crucial role in the behavior of thin films, such as those used, e.g., as sensor coatings. In an attempt to develop a conclusive approach to determine these quantities, the polarity of the model polymer poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) in 600 nm thin films on a glass support was probed by the energy of the charge transfer transition in the oxazine dye Nile red (NR) at 25 °C. The absorption and fluorescence spectra of NR were observed to shift to the red with increasing solvent polarity, because of the intramolecular charge transfer character of the optical transition. New types of solvatochromic plots of emission frequency against absorption frequency and vice versa afforded the Onsager radius-free estimation of the ground and excited states dipole moment ratio. With this approach the values of these dipole moments of 11.97 D and 18.30–19.16 D, respectively, were obtained for NR. An effective local dielectric constant of 5.9–8.3 for PMMA thin films was calculated from the solvatochromic plot and the fluorescence maximum of NR observed in the PMMA films. The fluorescence band of NR in the rigid PMMA films shifted to the red by 130 cm−1 with increasing excitation wavelength from 470 to 540 nm, while in a series of liquids the position of the emission maximum of NR remained constant within same range of the excitation wavelength. It is concluded that the fluorescence spectrum of NR in PMMA undergoes inhomogeneous broadening due to different surroundings of NR molecules in the ground state and slow sub-glass transition (Tg) relaxations in PMMA.
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- Aydan Yadigarli
- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and Engineering (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076, Siegen, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and Engineering (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076, Siegen, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and Engineering (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076, Siegen, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry I and Research Center of Micro and Nanochemistry and Engineering (Cμ), Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2, 57076, Siegen, Germany
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Ricci J, Bennin T, Xing E, Ediger MD. Linear Stress Relaxation and Probe Reorientation: Comparison of the Segmental Dynamics of Two Glassy Polymers during Physical Aging. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Josh Ricci
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Study on the effect of side-chain group on the segmental dynamics of selected methacrylate polymers at ambient and high pressures. POLYMER 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.121860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Bennin T, Ricci J, Ediger MD. Enhanced Segmental Dynamics of Poly(lactic acid) Glasses during Constant Strain Rate Deformation. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Trevor Bennin
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Liu W, Zhang L. Mechanisms of the Complex Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Glass Across a Wide Range of Temperature Variations. Polymers (Basel) 2018; 10:E1153. [PMID: 30961079 PMCID: PMC6403929 DOI: 10.3390/polym10101153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Revised: 10/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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This paper aims to explore the mechanisms of the complex thermo-mechanical behavior of polymer glass across a wide range of temperature variations. To this end, the free vibration frequency spectrum of simply supported poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) beams was thoroughly investigated with the aid of the impulse excitation technique. It was found that the amplitude ratio of the multiple peaks in the frequency spectrum is a strongly dependent on temperature, and that the peaks correspond to the multiple vibrational modes of the molecular network of PMMA. At a low temperature, the vibration is dominated by the overall microstructure of PMMA. With increasing the temperature, however, the contribution of the sub-microstructures is retarded by β relaxation. Above 80 °C, the vibration is fully dominated by the microstructure after relaxation. The relaxation time at the transition temperature is of the same order of the vibration period, confirming the contribution of β relaxation. These findings provide a precise method for establishing reliable physical-based constitutive models of polymer glass.
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- Weidong Liu
- Laboratory for Precision and Nano Processing Technologies, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
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- Laboratory for Precision and Nano Processing Technologies, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales 2052, Australia.
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Telfah A, Abdul-Gader Jafar MM, Jum'h I, Ahmad MJA, Lambert J, Hergenröder R. Identification of relaxation processes in pure polyethylene oxide (PEO) films by the dielectric permittivity and electric modulus formalisms. POLYM ADVAN TECHNOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/pat.4306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Ahmad Telfah
- Leibniz Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS-e.V.; Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Straße 11 44139 Dortmund Germany
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- School of Basic Sciences and Humanities (SBSH); German-Jordanian University (GJU); Amman 11180 Jordan
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- Leibniz Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS-e.V.; Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Straße 11 44139 Dortmund Germany
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- Leibniz Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS-e.V.; Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Straße 11 44139 Dortmund Germany
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- Leibniz Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS-e.V.; Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Straße 11 44139 Dortmund Germany
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F Behbahani A, Vaez Allaei SM, H Motlagh G, Eslami H, Harmandaris VA. Structure and dynamics of stereo-regular poly(methyl-methacrylate) melts through atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. SOFT MATTER 2018; 14:1449-1464. [PMID: 29393331 DOI: 10.1039/c7sm02008b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Poly(methyl-methacrylate), PMMA, is a disubstituted vinyl polymer whose properties depend significantly on its tacticity. Here we present a detailed study of the structure, conformation, and dynamics of syndiotactic, atactic, and isotactic PMMA melts at various temperatures (580, 550, 520, and 490 K) via all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. The calculated volumetric properties are close to experimental data. The Tg and chain dimensions of PMMA model systems are found to depend strongly on tacticity in agreement with experimental findings. The backbone bonds in trans (t), diads in tt, and inter-diads in t|t torsional states are the most populated for all PMMA stereo-chemistries and their fractions increase with the number of syndiotactic sequences. Also, the effective torsional barrier heights for the backbone, ester side group, and α-methyl group are larger for syndiotactic PMMA compared to the isotactic one. The structure of the PMMA chains is studied by computing the intra- and inter-chain static structure factors, S(q), and the radial pair distribution functions. In the first peak of S(q), both intra- and inter-chain components contribute, whereas the second and third peaks mainly come from inter- and intra-chain parts, respectively. For all PMMA stereo-isomers a clear tendency of ester-methyl groups to aggregate is observed. The local dynamics are studied by analyzing torsional autocorrelation functions for various dihedral angles. A wide spectrum of correlation times and different activation energies are observed for the motions of different parts of PMMA chains. The stereo-chemistry affects the backbone, ester side group, and α-methyl motions, whereas the ester-methyl rotation remains unaffected. The dynamic heterogeneity of the PMMA chains is also studied in detail for the different stereo-chemistries via the temperature dependence of the stretching exponent. Furthermore, the reorientational dynamics at the chain level and translational dynamics for monomer and chain centers-of-mass are analyzed.
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- Alireza F Behbahani
- Advanced Polymer Materials and Processing Lab, School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 11155-4563, Iran
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Thermal, electrical, and dielectric properties of reduced graphene oxide-polyaniline nanotubes hybrid nanocomposites synthesized by in situ
reduction and varying graphene oxide concentration. J Appl Polym Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/app.45883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Glass transition of poly (methyl methacrylate) filled with nanosilica and core-shell structured silica. POLYMER 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2017.08.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Zhang C, Li L, Wang X, Xue G. Stabilization of Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nanofibers with Core–Shell Structures Confined in AAO Templates by the Balance between Geometric Curvature, Interfacial Interactions, and Cooling Rate. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Chen Zhang
- Key Laboratory of High Performance
Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department
of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing
National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance
Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department
of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing
National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance
Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department
of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing
National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance
Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department
of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing
National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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Körber T, Mohamed F, Hofmann M, Lichtinger A, Willner L, Rössler EA. The Nature of Secondary Relaxations: The Case of Poly(ethylene-alt-propylene) Studied by Dielectric and Deuteron NMR Spectroscopy. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Thomas Körber
- Experimentalphysik
II, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Experimentalphysik
II, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Experimentalphysik
II, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Experimentalphysik
II, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute
of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Experimentalphysik
II, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Sakatsuji W, Konishi T, Miyamoto Y. Origin of two maxima in specific heat in enthalpy relaxation under thermal history composed of cooling, annealing, and heating. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:062501. [PMID: 28085480 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.062501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The origin of two maxima in specific heat observed at the higher and the lower temperatures in the glass-transition region in the heating process has been studied for polymethyl methacrylate and polyvinyl chloride using differential scanning calorimetry, and the calculation was done using the phenomenological model equation under a thermal history of the typical annealing experiment composed of cooling, annealing, and heating. The higher maximum is observed above the glass-transition temperature, and it remains almost unchanged independent of annealing time t_{a}, while the lower one is observed above an annealing temperature T_{a} and shifts toward the higher one, increasing its magnitude with t_{a}. The analysis by the phenomenological model equation proposed in order to interpret the memory effect in the glassy state clarifies that under a typical annealing history, two maxima in specific heat essentially appear. The shift of the lower maximum toward higher temperatures from above T_{a} is caused by an increase in the amount of relaxation during annealing with t_{a}. The annealing temperature and the amount of relaxation during annealing play a major role in the determination of the number of maxima in the specific heat.
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- Waki Sakatsuji
- Division of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Lin Y, Liu L, Zhang D, Liu Y, Guan A, Wu G. Unexpected segmental dynamics in polystyrene-grafted silica nanocomposites. SOFT MATTER 2016; 12:8542-8553. [PMID: 27722506 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm01321j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Establishing the relationship between interfacial layer chain packing and dynamics remains a continuing challenge in polymer nanocomposites (PNCs). This issue is expected to be significant in our understanding of the mechanism of the dynamic response of such materials and the manner in which these parameters affect the macroscopic properties of PNCs. In this study, we report the dynamics of free polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) matrix chains, as well as those of polymer chains surrounding the spherical silica nanoparticles (NPs) where silica NPs are either bare or PS grafted, to discriminate the role of grafted chains and interfacial interactions between grafted NPs and the matrix. The α-relaxation dynamics of the PS matrix is unaffected by silica NP loadings, it slows down in PMMA nanocomposites because of polymer-NP interfacial interactions and steric hindrance. More interestingly, we probe the enhanced mobility of the interfacial layer (α'-relaxation) in PNCs filled with grafted NPs, and this phenomenon is further corroborated by the accelerated Maxwell-Wagner-Sillars polarization process in the presence of grafted silica NPs. Moreover, the α'-relaxation time in the vicinity of glass transition temperature of the polymer matrix unexpectedly increases with increasing temperature. Such an anomalous temperature-dependent behavior can be attributed to the influence exerted by slow α-relaxation dynamics. Considering these phenomena and the mechanical properties, we propose a three-layer model to explain the observed behavior of grafted silica NP-filled nanocomposites. These findings provide new insight into the mechanisms responsible for mechanical reinforcement and therefore provide guidance in designing PNCs with tunable macroscopic properties.
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- Yu Lin
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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Castelvetro V, Capaccioli S, Raihane M, Atlas S. Complex Dynamics of a Fluorinated Vinylidene Cyanide Copolymer Highlighted by Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy. Macromolecules 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Valter Castelvetro
- Dipartimento
di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, via G. Moruzzi
13, I-56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratory
of Organometallic and Macromolecular Chemistry-Composite Materials,
Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cadi Ayyad University, Avenue
Abdelkrim Khattabi, BP 549, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco
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- Laboratory
of Organometallic and Macromolecular Chemistry-Composite Materials,
Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cadi Ayyad University, Avenue
Abdelkrim Khattabi, BP 549, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco
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Zhang L, Qiu B, Song Y, Zheng Q. Molecular relaxation and dynamic rheology of “cluster phase”-free ionomers based on lanthanum(iii)-neutralized low-carboxylated poly(methyl methacrylate). RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra10135f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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La(iii)-neutralized low-carboxylated poly(methyl methacrylate)-based ionomers free of cluster phase exhibit a fluid-to-solid transition assigned to an interconnected multiplets network.
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- Lina Zhang
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- China
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- China
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
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Ngai KL, Capaccioli S, Prevosto D, Wang LM. Coupling of Caged Molecule Dynamics to JG β-Relaxation II: Polymers. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:12502-18. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b07293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- K. L. Ngai
- CNR-IPCF, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
- State
Key Lab of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei 066004 China
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- CNR-IPCF, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- CNR-IPCF, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- State
Key Lab of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei 066004 China
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Sondhauss J, Lantz M, Gotsmann B, Schirmeisen A. β-Relaxation of PMMA: Tip Size and Stress Effects in Friction Force Microscopy. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:5398-5405. [PMID: 25927251 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The kinetic signature of the β-relaxation of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is investigated by friction force microscopy. The variation in friction force was measured as a function of scan velocity, temperature (300 K-410 K), and applied load using both sharp and blunt probe tips. The friction data show distinct maxima, which can be ascribed to the β-relaxation of PMMA. The contact area was varied over the ranges of approximately 20 to 70 nm(2) and 12,000 to 43,000 nm(2) through the use of probe tips with radii of approximately 15, 18, 1350, and 2650 nm. Kinetic analysis shows that the apparent activation energy of the β-relaxation decreases with the tip radius. Accompanying finite element simulations indicate that for the sharp tips a substantial subvolume of the polymer underneath the tip exceeds the yield stress of PMMA. This suggests that for small contact sizes and high stresses the activation barrier of the β-process decreases through the activation of the α-process by material yielding.
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- Johannes Sondhauss
- †Physikalisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, 48149 Münster, Germany
- ‡Center for Nanotechnology (CeNTech), Heisenbergstr. 11, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- §IBM Research - Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- §IBM Research - Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- ∥Institute of Applied Physics, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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Lv Y, Lin Y, Chen F, Li F, Shangguan Y, Zheng Q. Chain entanglement and molecular dynamics of solution-cast PMMA/SMA blend films affected by hydrogen bonding between casting solvents and polymer chains. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra06663h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The effects of intermolecular interaction between casting solvents and polymer chains on molecular entanglement and dynamics in solution-cast PMMA/SMA films were probed by rheological, dielectric and modulated DSC methods.
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- Yuhua Lv
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- People's Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- People's Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- People's Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- People's Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- People's Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou 310027
- People's Republic of China
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Choudhary S, Sengwa RJ. Structural and dielectric studies of amorphous and semicrystalline polymers blend-based nanocomposite electrolytes. J Appl Polym Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/app.41311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Shobhna Choudhary
- Department of Physics, Dielectric Research Laboratory; Jai Narain Vyas University; Jodhpur 342 005 India
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- Department of Physics, Dielectric Research Laboratory; Jai Narain Vyas University; Jodhpur 342 005 India
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Elamin K, Björklund J, Nyhlén F, Yttergren M, Mårtensson L, Swenson J. Glass transition and relaxation dynamics of propylene glycol–water solutions confined in clay. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:034505. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4889742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Chua YZ, Schulz G, Shoifet E, Huth H, Zorn R, Scmelzer JWP, Schick C. Glass transition cooperativity from broad band heat capacity spectroscopy. Colloid Polym Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s00396-014-3280-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Hayashi T, Fukao K. Segmental and local dynamics of stacked thin films of poly(methyl methacrylate). PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:022602. [PMID: 25353497 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.022602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2013] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The glass transition temperature and the dynamics of the α and β processes have been investigated using differential scanning calorimetry and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy during successive annealing processes above the glass transition temperature for stacked thin films of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) of various thicknesses. The glass transition temperature and the dynamics of the α process (segmental motion) of as-stacked PMMA thin films exhibit thin-film-like behavior, insofar as the glass transition temperature is depressed and the dynamics of the α process are faster than those of the bulk system. Annealing at high temperature causes the glass transition temperature to increase from the reduced value and causes the dynamics of the α process to become slower approaching those of the bulk. Contrary to the segmental motion, the relaxation time of the β process (local motion) of the stacked PMMA thin films is almost equal to that of the bulk PMMA and is unaffected by the annealing process. However, the relaxation strengths of both the α process and β process show a strong correlation between each other. The sum of the relaxation strengths remains almost unchanged, while the individual relaxation strengths change during the annealing process. The fragility index of the stacked PMMA thin films increases with annealing, which suggests that the glassy state of the stacked thin films changes from strong to fragile.
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- Tatsuhiko Hayashi
- Department of Physics, Ritsumeikan University, Noji-Higashi 1-1-1, Kusatsu, 525-8577 Japan
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- Department of Physics, Ritsumeikan University, Noji-Higashi 1-1-1, Kusatsu, 525-8577 Japan
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Fragiadakis D, Roland CM. Characteristics of the Johari-Goldstein process in rigid asymmetric molecules. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:042307. [PMID: 24229172 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.042307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out on a Lennard-Jones binary mixture of rigid (fixed bond length) diatomic molecules. The translational and rotational correlation functions, and the corresponding susceptibilities, exhibit two relaxation processes: the slow structural relaxation (α dynamics) and a higher frequency secondary relaxation. The latter is a Johari-Goldstein (JG) process, by its definition of involving all parts of the molecule. It shows several properties characteristic of the JG relaxation: (1) merging with the α relaxation at high temperature; (2) a change in temperature dependence of its relaxation strength on vitrification; (3) a separation in frequency from the α peak that correlates with the breadth of the α dispersion; and (4) sensitivity to volume, pressure, and physical aging. These properties can be used to determine whether a secondary relaxation in a real material is an authentic JG process, rather than more trivial motion involving intramolecular degrees of freedom. The latter has no connection to the glass transition, whereas the JG relaxation is closely related to structural relaxation, and thus can provide new insights into the phenomenon.
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- D Fragiadakis
- Naval Research Laboratory, Chemistry Division, Code 6120, Washington, DC 20375-5342, USA
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Shoifet E, Chua YZ, Huth H, Schick C. High frequency alternating current chip nano calorimeter with laser heating. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2013; 84:073903. [PMID: 23902080 DOI: 10.1063/1.4812349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Heat capacity spectroscopy at frequencies up to 100 kHz is commonly performed by thermal effusivity measurements applying the 3ω-technique. Here we show that AC-calorimetry using a thin film chip sensor allows for the measurement of frequency dependent heat capacity in the thin film limit up to about 1 MHz. Using films thinner than the thermal length of the thermal wave (~1 μm) at such frequencies is advantageous because it provides heat capacity alone and not in combination with other quantities like thermal conductivity, at least on a qualitative basis. The used calorimetric sensor and the sample are each less than 1 μm thick. For high frequency AC-calorimetry, high cooling rates at very small temperature differences are required. This is realized by minimizing the heated spot to the size of the on chip thermocouple (3 × 6 μm(2)). A modulated laser beam shaped and positioned by a glass fiber is used as the heat source. The device was used to measure the complex heat capacity in the vicinity of the dynamic glass transition (structural relaxation) of poly(methyl methacrylate). Combining different calorimeters finally provides data between 10(-3) Hz and 10(6) Hz. In this frequency range the dynamic glass transition shifts about 120 K.
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- E Shoifet
- Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Wismarsche Str. 43-45, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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Blaszczyk-Lezak I, Hernández M, Mijangos C. One Dimensional PMMA Nanofibers from AAO Templates. Evidence of Confinement Effects by Dielectric and Raman Analysis. Macromolecules 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/ma400173q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Iwona Blaszczyk-Lezak
- Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología
de Polímeros, CSIC, Juan de la Cierva
3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología
de Polímeros, CSIC, Juan de la Cierva
3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología
de Polímeros, CSIC, Juan de la Cierva
3, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Nobukawa S, Urakawa O, Shikata T, Inoue T. Dynamics of a Probe Molecule Dissolved in Several Polymer Matrices with Different Side-Chain Structures: Determination of Correlation Length Relevant to Glass Transition. Macromolecules 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/ma302567j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Shogo Nobukawa
- Department of Macromolecular
Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- Department of Macromolecular
Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Macromolecular
Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Macromolecular
Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Lin Y, Tan Y, Qiu B, Shangguan Y, Harkin-Jones E, Zheng Q. Influence of Annealing on Chain Entanglement and Molecular Dynamics in Weak Dynamic Asymmetry Polymer Blends. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:697-705. [DOI: 10.1021/jp3098507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Yu Lin
- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
310027, People’s Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
310027, People’s Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
310027, People’s Republic of China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
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- Polymers Research Cluster, School
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AH, United Kingdom
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular
Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and
Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
310027, People’s Republic of China
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Casalini R, Snow AW, Roland CM. Temperature Dependence of the Johari–Goldstein Relaxation in Poly(methyl methacrylate) and Poly(thiomethyl methacrylate). Macromolecules 2012. [DOI: 10.1021/ma3021322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- R. Casalini
- Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6120, Washington, D.C. 20375-5342, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6120, Washington, D.C. 20375-5342, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6120, Washington, D.C. 20375-5342, United States
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Kyriakos K, Raftopoulos KN, Pissis P, Kyritsis A, Näther F, Häußler L, Fischer D, Vyalikh A, Scheler U, Reuter U, Pospiech D. Dielectric and thermal studies of the segmental dynamics of poly(methyl methacrylate)/silica nanocomposites prepared by the sol-gel method. J Appl Polym Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/app.38599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Chandra A, Meyer WH. Dielectric relaxation studies of low thermal expansion polymer composites. J Appl Polym Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/app.38455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Chirila TV, George KA, Abdul Ghafor WA, Pas SJ, Hill AJ. Sequential homo-interpenetrating polymer networks of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate): Synthesis, characterization, and calcium uptake. J Appl Polym Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/app.36824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Bartoš J, Iskrová-Miklošovičová M, Cangialosi D, Alegría A, Šauša O, Švajdlenková H, Arbe A, Krištiak J, Colmenero J. Positron annihilation and relaxation dynamics from dielectric spectroscopy: poly(vinylmethylether). JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:155104. [PMID: 22436554 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/15/155104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report on the temperature dependence of the lifetime of the ortho-positronium (o-Ps), τ(3), annihilation in amorphous polymer poly(vinylmethylether) (PVME) from positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS). We show that the behavior of τ(3)(T) can be divided into five regions, each of them having a linear temperature dependence, and that the crossover PALS temperatures situated at T(b1)(G), 0.76T(g)(PALS), T(b1)(L) = 1.14T(g)(PALS) and T(b2)(L) = 1.37T(G)(PALS), and marking the discontinuity in the free volume microstructure are related to various dynamic features from neutron scattering (NS) and broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS). First, a slight change in the PALS response in the glassy PVME at T(b1)(G) is related to the onset of the excess wing in an apparent correspondence with the fast secondary β motion from NS. A further slight bend in the liquid state at T(b1)(L) is related to a high-frequency tail of the primary α process as well as to the slow secondary β relaxation from BDS. In addition, it lies also in the vicinity of the crossover temperature, T(B)(βKWW), in the spectral dispersion of the primary α process, indicating a connection of the change in the o-Ps lifetime with the variation in the width of the primary α relaxation times distribution. Finally, the τ(3) value at T(b2)(L) is close to the mean relaxation time of the primary α process, τ(α), in coincidence with the crossover in the secondary effective β process between two regimes in the liquid PVME. All these relationships point to very close connections between the PALS response and the dynamic behavior of PVME, which can be explained in terms of the temperature dependence of the probability function of the liquid-like and the solid-like domains, as obtained from the two-order parameter (TOP) model description of the liquid to glass transition in glass-formers.
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- J Bartoš
- Polymer Institute of SAS, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 41 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
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Lin Y, Shangguan Y, Zuo M, Harkin-Jones E, Zheng Q. Effects of molecular entanglement on molecular dynamics and phase-separation kinetics of poly(methyl methacrylate)/poly(styrene-co-maleic anhydride) blends. POLYMER 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2012.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Encinar M, Prolongo MG, Rubio RG, Ortega F, Ahmadi A, Freire JJ. Dielectric and molecular dynamics study of the secondary relaxations of poly(styrene-co-methylmethacrylate) copolymers: Influence of the molecular architecture. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2011; 34:1-14. [PMID: 22197907 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2011-11134-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2011] [Revised: 11/07/2011] [Accepted: 11/09/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The effect of the structure of copolymers (random, alternate or diblock) on their dynamics has been studied by dielectric spectroscopy. Six copolymers of styrene and methyl methacrylate (three diblocks, one alternate and two random) have been studied. The results show that the sub- T (g) transitions of the diblock samples can be described by one asymmetric Havriliak-Negami (HN) function, while two are necessary for the rest of the copolymers (β and γ relaxations). The characteristic times of the sub- T (g) relaxations show an Arrhenius temperature dependence and there is a strong coupling of the α and β relaxations at high temperatures. The deconvolution of the merging relaxations has been made in the framework of the Williams Ansatz set out in terms of Havriliak-Negami distributions. Because the 2D (2)H-NMR results excluded any significant contribution from the rotation of the methoxy group of the methacrylate group around the C-OCH(3) bond, the γ relaxation may be assigned to the rotation of the methyl methacrylate group in a styrene-rich environment. The Molecular Dynamics simulations of a poly(methyl methacrylate) homopolymer and of the alternate copolymer are in qualitative agreement with the experimental results, although they predict smaller values for the activation energy of the sub- T (g) relaxations.
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- M Encinar
- Departamento de Química Física I, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Boucher VM, Cangialosi D, Alegría A, Colmenero J. Enthalpy Recovery of Glassy Polymers: Dramatic Deviations from the Extrapolated Liquidlike Behavior. Macromolecules 2011. [DOI: 10.1021/ma2018233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Virginie M. Boucher
- Donostia International Physics Center, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
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- Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
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- Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
- Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Apartado 1072, 20080 San Sebastián, Spain
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- Donostia International Physics Center, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
- Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
- Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Apartado 1072, 20080 San Sebastián, Spain
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Casalini R, Fragiadakis D, Roland CM. Relaxation Dynamics of Poly(methyl acrylate) at Elevated Pressure. Macromolecules 2011. [DOI: 10.1021/ma200892f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- R. Casalini
- Chemistry Division, Code 6120, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C. 20375-5342, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Code 6120, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C. 20375-5342, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Code 6120, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C. 20375-5342, United States
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