Dynamics of polymer segments, polymer chains, and nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposite melts: A review

EJ Bailey, KI Winey - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The addition of nanoparticles (NPs) to a polymer matrix, forming a polymer nanocomposite
(PNC), is known to alter the microscopic dynamic processes of both species which leads to …

Modeling of polymer structure and conformations in polymer nanocomposites from atomistic to mesoscale: A Review

A Karatrantos, N Clarke, M Kröger - Polymer reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past two decades polymer nanocomposites have received tremendous interest
from industry and academia due to their advanced properties comparative to polymer …

Triggering Gaussian-to-Exponential Transition of Displacement Distribution in Polymer Nanocomposites via Adsorption-Induced Trap**

M Hu, H Chen, H Wang, S Burov, E Barkai, D Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
In many disordered systems, the diffusion of classical particles is described by a
displacement distribution P (x, t) that displays exponential tails instead of Gaussian statistics …

Macromolecule and particle dynamics in confined media

CC Lin, E Parrish, RJ Composto - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Dynamic properties play an important role in designing functional polymer nanocomposites,
impacting molecular transport and phase separation kinetics. When nanoparticle (NP) size …

Effects of ionic liquid on cellulosic nanofiller filled natural rubber bionanocomposites

S Yasin, M Hussain, Q Zheng, Y Song - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cellulosic nanofillers are sustainable replacements of synthetic fillers while the
agglomeration limits their potentials in high-performance rubber bionanocomposites …

Polymer dynamics under confinement

D Richter, M Kruteva - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We review recent neutron scattering work and related results from simulation and
complementary techniques focusing on the microscopic dynamics of polymers under …

Decoupled polymer dynamics in weakly attractive poly (methyl methacrylate)/silica nanocomposites

W Cui, W You, Z Sun, W Yu - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, polymer dynamics of the weakly attractive poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA)/
silica nanocomposites with different molecular weights of the matrix, interaction strength …

Effect of nanofiller geometry on network formation in polymeric nanocomposites: Comparison of rheological and electrical properties of multiwalled carbon nanotube …

S Sadeghi, M Arjmand, I Otero Navas… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The present work reveals results on the network formation of graphene nanoribbon (GNR)
synthesized using a nonoxidative technique from multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) …

[HTML][HTML] Network confinement and heterogeneity slows nanoparticle diffusion in polymer gels

E Parrish, MA Caporizzo, RJ Composto - The Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Nanoparticle (NP) diffusion was measured in polyacrylamide gels (PAGs) with a mesh size
comparable to the NP size, 21 nm. The confinement ratio (CR), NP diameter/mesh size …

Structure and dynamics of a polymer–nanoparticle composite: Effect of nanoparticle size and volume fraction

V Sorichetti, V Hugouvieux, W Kob - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
We use molecular dynamics simulations to study a semidilute, unentangled polymer solution
containing well-dispersed, weakly attractive nanoparticles (NP) of size (σ N) smaller than the …