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    Structure and transport properties of polymer grafted nanoparticles

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    Authors
    Goyal, Sushmit
    Escobedo, Fernando A.
    KAUST Grant Number
    KUS-C1-018-02
    Date
    2011-11-09
    Online Publication Date
    2011-11-09
    Print Publication Date
    2011-11-14
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599765
    
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    Abstract
    We perform molecular dynamics simulations on a bead-spring model of pure polymer grafted nanoparticles (PGNs) and of a blend of PGNs with a polymer melt to investigate the correlation between PGN design parameters (such as particle core concentration, polymer grafting density, and polymer length) and properties, such as microstructure, particle mobility, and viscous response. Constant strain-rate simulations were carried out to calculate viscosities and a constant-stress ensemble was used to calculate yield stresses. The PGN systems are found to have less structural order, lower viscosity, and faster diffusivity with increasing length of the grafted chains for a given core concentration or grafting density. Decreasing grafting density causes depletion effects associated with the chains leading to close contacts between some particle cores. All systems were found to shear thin, with the pure PGN systems shear thinning more than the blend; also, the pure systems exhibited a clear yielding behavior that was absent in the blend. Regarding the mechanism of shear thinning at the high shear rates examined, it was found that the shear-induced decrease of Brownian stresses and increase in chain alignment, both correlate with the reduction of viscosity in the system with the latter being more dominant. A coupling between Brownian stresses and chain alignment was also observed wherein the non-equilibrium particle distribution itself promotes chain alignment in the direction of shear. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.
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    Goyal S, Escobedo FA (2011) Structure and transport properties of polymer grafted nanoparticles. J Chem Phys 135: 184902. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3657831.
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    This paper is based on work supported in part by Award No. KUS-C1-018-02, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). It was also supported by Award No. CBET-1033349 from National Science Foundation (NSF). The authors are grateful to Professor D. L. Koch, Professor L. A. Archer, Professor I. Cohen, Professor A. Z. Panagiotopoulos, Dr. Xiang Chen, U. Agarwal, S. Srivastava, and P. Agarwal for useful discussions and suggestions.
    Publisher
    AIP Publishing
    Journal
    The Journal of Chemical Physics
    DOI
    10.1063/1.3657831
    PubMed ID
    22088076
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1063/1.3657831
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