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Lain MJ, Apachitei G, Román-Ramírez L, Copley M, Marco J. Cross-sectional analysis of lithium ion electrodes using spatial autocorrelation techniques. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:29999-30009. [PMID: 36472147 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03094b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Join counting, a standard technique in spatial autocorrelation analysis, has been used to quantify the clustering of carbon, fluorine and sodium in cross-sectioned anode and cathode samples. The sample preparation and EDS mapping steps are sufficiently fast for every coating from two Design of Experiment (DoE) test matrices to be characterised. The results show two types of heterogeneity in material distribution; gradients across the coating from the current collector to the surface, and clustering. In the cathode samples, the carbon is more clustered than the fluorine, implying that the conductive carbon component is less well distributed than the binder. The results are correlated with input parameters systematically varied in the DoE e.g. coating blade gap, coating speed, and other output parameters e.g. coat weight, and electrochemical resistance.
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- Michael J Lain
- WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. .,The Faraday Institution, UK
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- WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. .,The Faraday Institution, UK
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- WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. .,The Faraday Institution, UK.,School of Engineering, London South Bank University, London SE1 0AA, UK
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- WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. .,The Faraday Institution, UK
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- WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK. .,The Faraday Institution, UK
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Müller M, Abetz V. Nonequilibrium Processes in Polymer Membrane Formation: Theory and Experiment. Chem Rev 2021; 121:14189-14231. [PMID: 34032399 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Porous polymer and copolymer membranes are useful for ultrafiltration of functional macromolecules, colloids, and water purification. In particular, block copolymer membranes offer a bottom-up approach to form isoporous membranes. To optimize permeability, selectivity, longevity, and cost, and to rationally design fabrication processes, direct insights into the spatiotemporal structure evolution are necessary. Because of a multitude of nonequilibrium processes in polymer membrane formation, theoretical predictions via continuum models and particle simulations remain a challenge. We compiled experimental observations and theoretical approaches for homo- and block copolymer membranes prepared by nonsolvent-induced phase separation and highlight the interplay of multiple nonequilibrium processes─evaporation, solvent-nonsolvent exchange, diffusion, hydrodynamic flow, viscoelasticity, macro- and microphase separation, and dynamic arrest─that dictates the complex structure of the membrane on different scales.
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- Marcus Müller
- Georg-August Universität, Institut für Theoretische Physik, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Institut für Membranforschung, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany.,Universität Hamburg, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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Li W, Jana PK, Behbahani AF, Kritikos G, Schneider L, Polińska P, Burkhart C, Harmandaris VA, Müller M, Doxastakis M. Dynamics of Long Entangled Polyisoprene Melts via Multiscale Modeling. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Wei Li
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Georg-August University, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion GR-71110, Greece
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Georg-August University, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio 44305, United States
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- Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion GR-71110, Greece
- Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Heraklion GR-71110, Greece
- Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia 2121, Cyprus
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Georg-August University, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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Goujon F, Martzel N, Dequidt A, Latour B, Garruchet S, Devémy J, Blaak R, Munch É, Malfreyt P. Backbone oriented anisotropic coarse grains for efficient simulations of polymers. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:214901. [PMID: 33291912 DOI: 10.1063/5.0019945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite the fact that anisotropic particles have been introduced to describe molecular interactions for decades, they have been poorly used for polymers because of their computing time overhead and the absence of a relevant proof of their impact in this field. We first report a method using anisotropic beads for polymers, which solves the computing time issue by considering that beads keep their principal orientation alongside the mean local backbone vector of the polymer chain, avoiding the computation of torques during the dynamics. Applying this method to a polymer bulk, we study the effect of anisotropic interactions vs isotropic ones for various properties such as density, pressure, topology of the chain network, local structure, and orientational order. We show that for different classes of potentials traditionally used in molecular simulations, those backbone oriented anisotropic beads can solve numerous issues usually encountered with isotropic interactions. We conclude that the use of backbone oriented anisotropic beads is a promising approach for the development of realistic coarse-grained potentials for polymers.
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- Florent Goujon
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin, Site de Ladoux, 23 Place des Carmes Déchaux, France Cedex 9, 63040 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Hou JX. Determine Mesh Size through Monomer Mean-Square Displacement. Polymers (Basel) 2019; 11:polym11091405. [PMID: 31461920 PMCID: PMC6780637 DOI: 10.3390/polym11091405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Revised: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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A dynamic method to determine the main parameter of the tube theory through monomer mean-square displacement is discussed in this paper. The tube step length can be measured from the intersection of the slope-12 line and the slope-14 line in log-log plot, and the tube diameter can be obtained by recording the time at which g1 data start to leave the slope-12 regime. According to recent simulation data, the ratio of the tube step length to the tube diameter was found to be about 2 for different entangled polymer systems. Since measuring the tube diameter does not require g1 data to reach the slope-14 regime, this could be the best way to find the entanglement length from microscopic consideration.
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- Ji-Xuan Hou
- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China.
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García NA, Barrat JL. Entanglement Reduction Induced by Geometrical Confinement in Polymer Thin Films. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Nicolás A. García
- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France
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Korolkovas A. 5D Entanglement in Star Polymer Dynamics. ADVANCED THEORY AND SIMULATIONS 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/adts.201800078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Airidas Korolkovas
- Department of Physics and Astronomy; Uppsala University; Lägerhyddsvägen 1 752 37 Uppsala Sweden
- Large Scale Structures Group; Institut Laue-Langevin; 71 rue des Martyrs 38000 Grenoble France
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Korolkovas A, Gutfreund P, Wolff M. Dynamical structure of entangled polymers simulated under shear flow. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:074901. [PMID: 30134722 DOI: 10.1063/1.5035170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The non-linear response of entangled polymers to shear flow is complicated. Its current understanding is framed mainly as a rheological description in terms of the complex viscosity. However, the full picture requires an assessment of the dynamical structure of individual polymer chains which give rise to the macroscopic observables. Here we shed new light on this problem, using a computer simulation based on a blob model, extended to describe shear flow in polymer melts and semi-dilute solutions. We examine the diffusion and the intermediate scattering spectra during a steady shear flow. The relaxation dynamics are found to speed up along the flow direction, but slow down along the shear gradient direction. The third axis, vorticity, shows a slowdown at the short scale of a tube, but reaches a net speedup at the large scale of the chain radius of gyration.
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- Division for Material Physics, Department for Physics and Astronomy, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, 752 37 Uppsala, Sweden
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Korolkovas A, Rodriguez-Emmenegger C, de los Santos Pereira A, Chennevière A, Restagno F, Wolff M, Adlmann FA, Dennison AJC, Gutfreund P. Polymer Brush Collapse under Shear Flow. Macromolecules 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Airidas Korolkovas
- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 rue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
- Université
Grenoble Alpes, Liphy, 140 Rue de la
Physique, 38402 Saint-Martin-d’Hères, France
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- DWI
- Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials and Institute of Technical
and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Forckenbeckstraße
50, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute
of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic v.v.i., Heyrovsky Sq. 2, 162 06 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratoire
Léon Brillouin, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire
de Physique des Solides, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, Cedex, France
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- Division
for Material Physics, Department for Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box
516, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Division
for Material Physics, Department for Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box
516, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 rue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
- Department
of Chemistry, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN Sheffield, U.K
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