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Influence of Nanorod Inclusions on Structure and Primitive Path Network of Polymer Nanocomposites at Equilibrium and Under Deformation

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MACROMOLECULES
卷 44, 期 4, 页码 1034-1045

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma102741r

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  1. NSF through the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin
  2. Semiconductor Research Corporation
  3. NSF
  4. Swiss National Science foundation [IZ73Z0-128169]
  5. ETH [ETH-17 10-1]
  6. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)
  7. Comunidad de Madrid [I3]
  8. European Union [FP7/2007-2013, 236797]

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Addition of nanoparticles to polymer melts can significantly alter the mechanical properties of the resulting composite systems. Here we address the influence of nanorods on nanocomposite behavior and, in particular, on the entanglement network of the composites through extensive Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations at equilibrium and under uniaxial deformation. Recently proposed topological algorithms are used to determine the primitive path network and the entanglement molecular weight of polymer rod composites. A systematic study is presented of the effects of particle size, aspect ratio and volume fraction on their structure and entanglement state. For the primitive path analysis we consider two physical cases: the frozen particle limit where nanoparticles with fixed coordinates are explicitly present in the minimization process for the extraction of the primitive path network, and the phantom particle limit where nanoparticles are removed prior to the entanglement analysis. Simulation results indicate that the inclusion of nanoparticles into the polymer matrix does not significantly alter the polymer polymer primitive path network. Instead, it enriches the nanocomposite system by nucleating additional topological constraints of polymer-particle origin.

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