Structure and Entanglement Factors on Dynamics of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles

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• 作者：Siqi Liu ; Erkan Senses ; Yang Jiao ; Suresh Narayanan ; Pinar Akcora
• 刊名：ACS Macro Letters
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 17, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：5
• 期：5
• 页码：569-573
• 全文大小：346K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：2161-1653

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Nanoparticles functionalized with long polymer chains at low graft density are interesting systems to study structure–dynamic relationships in polymer nanocomposites since they are shown to aggregate into strings in both solution and melts and also into spheres and branched aggregates in the presence of free polymer chains. This work investigates structure and entanglement effects in composites of polystyrene-grafted iron oxide nanoparticles by measuring particle relaxations using X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. Particles within highly ordered strings and aggregated systems experience a dynamically heterogeneous environment displaying hyperdiffusive relaxation commonly observed in jammed soft glassy systems. Furthermore, particle dynamics is diffusive for branched aggregated structures which could be caused by less penetration of long matrix chains into brushes. These results suggest that particle motion is dictated by the strong interactions of chains grafted at low density with the host matrix polymer.