• 文献标题:   Distortion of Chain Conformation and Reduced Entanglement in Polymer-Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WEIR MP, JOHNSON DW, BOOTHROYD SC, SAVAGE RC, THOMPSON RL, KING SM, ROGERS SE, COLEMAN KS, CLARKE N
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  • 出版物名称:   ACS MACRO LETTERS
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  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sheffield
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00100
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

We study the conformations of polymer chains in polymer graphene oxide nanocomposites. We show that the chains have a reduced radius of gyration that is consistent with confinement at a solid interface in the melt, as is expected for well-dispersed, high aspect ratio nanoparticles that are much larger than the polymer coil size. We show that confinement of the polymer chains causes a corresponding reduction in interchain entanglements, and we calculate a contribution to the plateau modulus from the distorted polymer network via a simple scaling argument. Our results are a significant step forward in understanding how two-dimensional nanoparticles affect global material properties at low loadings.