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Title: Microscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors

Abstract

Nanoscale stress sensing is of crucial importance to biomechanics and other fields. An ideal stress sensor would have a large dynamic range to function in a variety of materials spanning orders of magnitude of local stresses. In this, we show that tetrapod quantum dots (tQDs) exhibit excellent sensing versatility with stress-correlated signatures in a multitude of polymers. We further show that tQDs exhibit pressure coefficients, which increase with decreasing polymer stiffness, and vary >3 orders of magnitude. This high dynamic range allows tQDs to sense in matrices spanning >4 orders of magnitude in Young's modulus, ranging from compliant biological levels (~100 kPa) to stiffer structural polymers (~5 GPa). We use ligand exchange to tune filler-matrix interfaces, revealing that inverse sensor response scaling is maintained upon significant changes to polymer-tQD interface chemistry. We quantify and explore mechanisms of polymer-tQD strain transfer. An analytical model based on Mori-Tanaka theory presents agreement with observed trends.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [5]; ORCiD logo [6]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials, Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
  5. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials, Science and Engineering and Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
OSTI Identifier:
1465472
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; ECCS-0901864
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Related Information: © 2018 The Author(s).; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Raja, Shilpa N., Ye, Xingchen, Jones, Matthew R., Lin, Liwei, Govindjee, Sanjay, and Ritchie, Robert O. Microscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03396-5.
Raja, Shilpa N., Ye, Xingchen, Jones, Matthew R., Lin, Liwei, Govindjee, Sanjay, & Ritchie, Robert O. Microscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03396-5
Raja, Shilpa N., Ye, Xingchen, Jones, Matthew R., Lin, Liwei, Govindjee, Sanjay, and Ritchie, Robert O. Tue . "Microscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03396-5. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1465472.
@article{osti_1465472,
title = {Microscopic mechanisms of deformation transfer in high dynamic range branched nanoparticle deformation sensors},
author = {Raja, Shilpa N. and Ye, Xingchen and Jones, Matthew R. and Lin, Liwei and Govindjee, Sanjay and Ritchie, Robert O.},
abstractNote = {Nanoscale stress sensing is of crucial importance to biomechanics and other fields. An ideal stress sensor would have a large dynamic range to function in a variety of materials spanning orders of magnitude of local stresses. In this, we show that tetrapod quantum dots (tQDs) exhibit excellent sensing versatility with stress-correlated signatures in a multitude of polymers. We further show that tQDs exhibit pressure coefficients, which increase with decreasing polymer stiffness, and vary >3 orders of magnitude. This high dynamic range allows tQDs to sense in matrices spanning >4 orders of magnitude in Young's modulus, ranging from compliant biological levels (~100 kPa) to stiffer structural polymers (~5 GPa). We use ligand exchange to tune filler-matrix interfaces, revealing that inverse sensor response scaling is maintained upon significant changes to polymer-tQD interface chemistry. We quantify and explore mechanisms of polymer-tQD strain transfer. An analytical model based on Mori-Tanaka theory presents agreement with observed trends.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-03396-5},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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