Corona Dynamics in Polymer Stabilised Nanocomposites

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The Payne effect, whereby filled polymers experience a loss of modulus under applied strain is responsible for much of the energy loss of vehicle tyres in everyday use. It has been postulated that this is due to a layer of glassy polymer on the particle surface, arising from the well-known anomalous glass transition, which span the network. Others object to this theory and instead suggest that chain ends in the vicinity of nanoparticles are responsible for this effect. Here we have devised an experiment to highlight the dynamics of polymer chains in the vicinity of nanoparticle surfaces using isotopic labelling and QENS. Samples in which an adsorbed layer of hydrogenous polymer forms the corona of the nanoparticles (of thickness determined by the molecular weight) will be studied over a range of temperature so that the influence of nanoparticle surface on dynamics can be isolated.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58446441
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58446441
Provenance
Creator Dr Stephen Boothroyd; Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai; Professor Nigel Clarke; Mr James Hart; Dr Richard Thompson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-03-23T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-03-30T09:00:00Z