Rheology and Microstructure of an Unentangled Polymer Nanocomposite Melt
| Autor: | Benjamin J. Anderson, Charles F. Zukoski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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chemistry.chemical_classification
Materials science Polymers and Plastics Polymer nanocomposite Scattering Organic Chemistry Mineralogy Polymer Polymer adsorption Microstructure Physics::Fluid Dynamics Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter Inorganic Chemistry chemistry Rheology Volume fraction Materials Chemistry Newtonian fluid Composite material |
| Zdroj: | Macromolecules. 41:9326-9334 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5835 0024-9297 |
| Popis: | The rheology and microstructure of 44 nm diameter silica particles suspended in unentangled polyethylene oxide (PEO) melts are studied through measurement of filled melt viscosity and X-ray scattering measurement of interparticle structure factors, S(q,ϕc), where q is the scattering vector and ϕc is the silica volume fraction. The neat polymer melts are Newtonian over the probed shear range. Filled melts have a constant viscosity at low particle concentrations and shear thin at high concentrations. At the same particle volume fraction, filled melt viscosities increase with polymer molecular weight. By defining an effective particle volume, assuming polymer adsorption adds 2.9Rg to the particle diameter, suspension viscosities of both molecular weights at all volume fractions resemble that of hard sphere suspensions. The particle osmotic compressibility and position and coherence of the first nearest neighbor shell suggest that the particles have radii larger than the core size due to polymer structuring n... |
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