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

Raja, Shilpa N.; Ye, Xingchen; Jones, Matthew R.; Lin, Liwei; Govindjee, Sanjay; Ritchie, Robert O.

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03396-5

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

Journal Article · Tue Mar 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03396-5· OSTI ID:1465472

Raja, Shilpa N. ^[1]; Ye, Xingchen ^[2];

^[3]; Lin, Liwei ^[4]; Govindjee, Sanjay ^[5];

^[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; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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

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.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; ECCS-0901864

OSTI ID:: 1465472

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1; Related Information: © 2018 The Author(s).; ISSN 2041-1723

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