Nanoscale Particle Motion in Attractive Polymer Nanocomposites

Senses, Erkan; Narayanan, Suresh; Mao, Yimin; Faraone, Antonio

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.237801

Title: Nanoscale Particle Motion in Attractive Polymer Nanocomposites

Journal Article · Wed Dec 06 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.237801· OSTI ID:1422390

Senses, Erkan ^[1]; Narayanan, Suresh ^[2]; Mao, Yimin ^[1]; Faraone, Antonio ^[3]

National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)

Using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we examined slow nanoscale motion of silica nanoparticles individually dispersed in entangled poly (ethylene oxide) melt at particle volume fractions up to 42 %. The nanoparticles, therefore, serve as both fillers for the resulting attractive polymer nanocomposites and probes for the network dynamics therein. The results show that the particle relaxation closely follows the mechanical reinforcement in the nanocomposites only at the intermediate concentrations below the critical value for the chain confinement. Quite unexpectedly, the relaxation time of the particles does not further slowdown at higher volume fractions- when all chains are practically on the nanoparticle interface- and decouples from the elastic modulus of the nanocomposites that further increases orders of magnitude.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1422390

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1411502

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 23; ISSN 0031-9007

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