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ACS NANO
卷 16, 期 7, 页码 10404-10411出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c00643
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polymer-grafted nanoparticles; polymer brushes; structural transition; X-ray scattering; structure-property relationship
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资金
- US Department of Energy Office of Science [DE-SC0021272]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program [DGE 16-44869]
- SC Smartstate program
- DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory [DE-SC0012704]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0021272] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Polymer-grafted nanoparticle membranes show unexpected gas transport enhancements, but the structural origins of this behavior are unclear. This study measured and interpreted data on grafted nanoparticles and found that as the graft molecular weight increases, the gas transport enhancement decreases.
Polymer-grafted nanoparticle (GNP) membranes show unexpected gas transport enhancements relative to the neat polymer, with a maximum as a function of graft molecular weight (MWg asymptotic to 100 kDa) for sufficiently high grafting densities. The structural origins of this behavior are unclear. Simulations suggest that polymer segments are stretched near the nano particle (NP) surface and form a dry layer, while more distal chain fragments are in their undeformed Gaussian states and interpenetrate with segments from neighboring NPs. This theoretical basis is derived by considering the behavior of two adjacent NPs; how this behavior is modified by multi-NP effects relevant to gas separation membranes is unexplored. Here, we measure and interpret SAXS data for poly(methyl acrylate)grafted silica NPs and find that for very low MW(g)s, contact between GNPs obeys the two-NP theory -namely that the NPs act like hard spheres, with radii that are linear combinations of the NP core sizes and the dry zone dimensions; thus, the interpenetration zones relax into the interstitial spaces. For chains with MWg > 100 kDa, the interpenetration zones are in the contact regions between two NPs. These results suggest that for MW(g)s below the transition, gas primarily moves through a series of dry zones with favorable transport, with the interpenetration zone with less favorable transport properties in parallel. For higher MW(g)s, the dry and interpenetration zones are in series, resulting in a decrease in transport enhancement. The MWg at the transport maximum then corresponds to the chain length with the largest, unfavorable stretching free energy.
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