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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 1663-1675Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma202308c
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- European Commission
- Languedoc-Roussillon region
- ILL
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The evolution of the polymer structure during nanocomposite formation and annealing of silica-latex nanocomposites is studied using contrast-variation small angle neutron scattering. The experimental system is made of silica nanopartides (R-si approximate to 8 nm) and a mixture of purpose-synthesized hydrogenated and deuterated nanolatex (R-latex approximate to 12.5 nm). The progressive disappearance of the latex beads by chain interdiffusion and release in the nanocomposites is analyzed quantitatively with a model for the scattered intensity of hairy latex beads and an RPA description of the free chains. In silica-free matrices and nanocomposites of low silica content (7%v), the annealing procedure over weeks at up to T-g + 85 K results in a molecular dispersion of chains, the radius of gyration of which is reported. At higher silica content (20%v), chain interdiffusion seems to be slowed down on time-scales of weeks, reaching a molecular dispersion only at the strongest annealing. Chain radii of gyration are found to be unaffected by the presence of the silica filler.
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