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Effect of Interfacial Interactions on the Crystal Growth Rate in Model PE/SiO2 Nanocomposites: Comparing Experiments With Lauritzen-Hoffman Model and MD Simulation

JANČÁŘ, J. BÁLKOVÁ, R.

Originální název

Effect of Interfacial Interactions on the Crystal Growth Rate in Model PE/SiO2 Nanocomposites: Comparing Experiments With Lauritzen-Hoffman Model and MD Simulation

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

Nanoparticles with engineered surface chemistry represent novel means in controlling the in-situ formation of property-specific supramolecular structure in advanced processing technologies of semicrystalline polymers. Often, the published experimental data on effects of interfacial adhesion on the crystallization kinetics of polymer nanocomposites report contradictory results even for similar systems. Computer simulations allow separating structural and test variables, thus, can provide useful framework for understanding these apparent controversies. Our MD simulation of Regime II crystallization showed that adding non-nucleating spherical nanoparticles reduced the crystal growth rate, G(II), compared with the neat polymer with the extent of the reduction proportional to the strength of interfacial attraction. It also suggested that, regardless of the strength of the interfacial interactions, additional reduction of the G(II) was caused by topological constraints imposed by nanoparticles on the stem attachment. Both the Lauritzen-Hoffman model predicted and MD simulated G(II) reduction agreed fairly well with that obtained experimentally for monodisperse PE filled with nanometer-sized SiO2. (c) 2013 Society of Plastics Engineers

Klíčová slova

Nanocomposites, fumed nanosilica, crystal growth rate, Lauritzen-Hofman model, MD simulation

Autoři

JANČÁŘ, J.; BÁLKOVÁ, R.

Rok RIV

2013

Vydáno

1. 12. 2013

Nakladatel

Wiley

Místo

USA

ISSN

0032-3888

Periodikum

Polymer Engineering and Science

Ročník

53

Číslo

12

Stát

Spojené státy americké

Strany od

2696

Strany do

2704

Strany počet

9

URL

BibTex

@article{BUT104454,
  author="Josef {Jančář} and Radka {Bálková}",
  title="Effect of Interfacial Interactions on the Crystal Growth Rate in Model PE/SiO2 Nanocomposites: Comparing Experiments With Lauritzen-Hoffman Model and MD Simulation",
  journal="Polymer Engineering and Science",
  year="2013",
  volume="53",
  number="12",
  pages="2696--2704",
  doi="10.1002/pen.23524",
  issn="0032-3888",
  url="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pen.23524"
}