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Theory of the Effects of Specific Attractions and Chain Connectivity on the Activated Dynamics and Selective Transport of Penetrants in Polymer Melts

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MACROMOLECULES
卷 55, 期 20, 页码 9134-9151

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01549

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-SC0020858]
  2. Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  3. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0020858] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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We apply a statistical mechanical theory to study the influence of polymer connectivity and penetrant-polymer attractive interactions on the hopping rate of penetrants in glass-forming liquids. We investigate the modifications of the penetrant activation barriers caused by attractions of variable strength and spatial range. Our findings reveal the importance of factors such as physical bonding, steric caging, local caging, and long-range matrix collective elasticity in determining penetrant transport selectivity.
We generalize and apply a microscopic force level statistical mechanical theory of activated spherical penetrant dynamics in glass-forming liquids to study the influence of semiflexible polymer connectivity and penetrant-polymer attractive interactions on the penetrant hopping rate. The detailed manner that attractions of highly variable strength and spatial range modify the penetrant size and polymer melt density (from the rubbery state to slightly beyond the kinetic glass transition) dependences of penetrant activation barriers is established. Of special interest are possible nonadditive consequences of physical bonding and steric caging, the degree of coupling of penetrant hopping and the Kuhn segment scale alpha relaxation process, the relative importance of local caging and long-range matrix collective elasticity as a function of penetrant size, and implications for optimizing transport selectivity. With increasing attraction strength, the repulsive caging-restriction effect on penetrant mobility is predicted to grow, in contrast to the effect of the equilibrium penetrant-matrix solvation shell size, which decreases. The former dynamical effect results in a significant enhancement of the importance of the local cage barrier, while the latter effect results in a decrease of the importance of the nonlocal collective elastic barrier. These two competing effects have a very strong influence on selective penetrant transport for different sized penetrants: selectivity varies nonmonotonically with attraction strength in the deeply supercooled state but decreases monotonically in the rubbery state and at fixed attraction strength, exhibits a nonmonotonic variation with the matrix packing fraction. By comparing results based on modeling the matrix as semiflexible polymer chains with analogous calculations using the same dynamical theory but for a disconnected hard sphere matrix, the effect of chain connectivity is revealed and found to have quantitative, but not qualitative, consequences on penetrant-activated dynamics.

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