Big Effect of Small Nanoparticles: A Shift in Paradigm for Polymer Nanocomposites

Cheng, Shiwang; Xie, Shi-Jie; Carrillo, Jan-Michael Y.; Carroll, Bobby; Martin, Halie; Cao, Peng-Fei; Dadmun, Mark D.; Sumpter, Bobby G.; Novikov, Vladimir N.; Schweizer, Kenneth S.; Sokolov, Alexei P.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b07172

Title: Big Effect of Small Nanoparticles: A Shift in Paradigm for Polymer Nanocomposites

Journal Article · Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2017 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b07172· OSTI ID:1341569

Cheng, Shiwang ^[1]; Xie, Shi-Jie ^[2]; Carrillo, Jan-Michael Y. ^[3]; Carroll, Bobby ^[4]; Martin, Halie ^[5]; Cao, Peng-Fei ^[1]; Dadmun, Mark D. ^[1]; Sumpter, Bobby G. ^[3]; Novikov, Vladimir N. ^[5]; Schweizer, Kenneth S. ^[2]; Sokolov, Alexei P. ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Chemical Sciences Division
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Chemistry
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Science
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Chemistry

Polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) are important materials that are widely used in many current technologies and potentially have broader applications in the future due to their excellent property of tunability, light weight and low cost. But, expanding the limits in property enhancement remains a fundamental scientific challenge. We demonstrate that well-dispersed, small (diameter ~1.8 nm) nanoparticles with attractive interactions lead to unexpectedly large and qualitatively new changes in PNC structural dynamics in comparison to conventional composites based on particles of diameter ~10-50 nm. At the same time, the zero-shear viscosity at high temperatures remains comparable to that of the neat polymer, thereby retaining good processibility and resolving a major challenge in PNC applications. These results suggest that the nanoparticle mobility and relatively short lifetimes of nanoparticlepolymer associations open qualitatively new horizons in tunability of macroscopic properties in nanocomposites with high potential for the development of new functional materials.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1341569

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 11, Issue 1; ISSN 1936-0851

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