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Senses, Erkan; Narayanan, Suresh; Mao, Yimin; Faraone, Antonio
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Science - SC, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22) (United States)2017
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Science - SC, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22) (United States)2017
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[en] Using x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, we examined slow nanoscale motion of silica nanoparticles individually dispersed in entangled poly (ethylene oxide) melt at particle volume fractions up to 42 %. The nanoparticles, therefore, serve as both fillers for the resulting attractive polymer nanocomposites and probes for the network dynamics therein. The results show that the particle relaxation closely follows the mechanical reinforcement in the nanocomposites only at the intermediate concentrations below the critical value for the chain confinement. Quite unexpectedly, the relaxation time of the particles does not further slowdown at higher volume fractions- when all chains are practically on the nanoparticle interface- and decouples from the elastic modulus of the nanocomposites that further increases orders of magnitude.
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OSTIID--1422390; AC02-06CH11357; Available from https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1422390; DOE Accepted Manuscript full text, or the publishers Best Available Version will be available free of charge after the embargo period
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Physical Review Letters; ISSN 0031-9007;
; v. 119(23); vp

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