Temperature-Dependent Properties of Telechelic Hydrophobically Modified Poly(N-isopropylacrylamides) in Water:  Evidence from Light Scattering and Fluorescence Spectroscopy for the Formation of Stable Mesoglobules at Elevated Temperatures

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 3048-3055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Kujawa ◽  
Fumihiko Tanaka ◽  
Françoise M. Winnik
ACS Omega ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khagendra Baral ◽  
Saro San ◽  
Ridwan Sakidja ◽  
Adrien Couet ◽  
Kumar Sridharan ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony C. Yu ◽  
Huada Lian ◽  
Xian Kong ◽  
Hector Lopez Hernandez ◽  
Jian Qin ◽  
...  

AbstractPhysical networks typically employ enthalpy-dominated crosslinking interactions that become more dynamic at elevated temperatures, leading to network softening. Moreover, standard mathematical frameworks such as time-temperature superposition assume network softening and faster dynamics at elevated temperatures. Yet, deriving a mathematical framework connecting the crosslinking thermodynamics to the temperature-dependent viscoelasticity of physical networks suggests the possibility for entropy-driven crosslinking interactions to provide alternative temperature dependencies. This framework illustrates that temperature negligibly affects crosslink density in reported systems, but drastically influences crosslink dynamics. While the dissociation rate of enthalpy-driven crosslinks is accelerated at elevated temperatures, the dissociation rate of entropy-driven crosslinks is negligibly affected or even slowed under these conditions. Here we report an entropy-driven physical network based on polymer-nanoparticle interactions that exhibits mechanical properties that are invariant with temperature. These studies provide a foundation for designing and characterizing entropy-driven physical crosslinking motifs and demonstrate how these physical networks access thermal properties that are not observed in current physical networks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 805-813
Author(s):  
Irma Peschke ◽  
Lars Robben ◽  
Christof Köhler ◽  
Thomas Frauenheim ◽  
Josef-Christian Buhl ◽  
...  

AbstractSynthesis, crystal structure and temperature-dependent behavior of Na2H4Ga2GeO8 are reported. This novel gallogermanate crystallizes in space group I41/acd with room-temperature powder diffraction lattice parameters of a = 1298.05(1) pm and c = 870.66(1) pm. The structure consists of MO4 (M = Ga, Ge) tetrahedra in four-ring chains, which are connected by two different (left- and right-handed) helical chains of NaO6 octahedra. Protons coordinating the oxygen atoms of the GaO4 tetrahedra not linked to germanium atoms ensure the charge balance. Structure solution and refinement are based on single crystal X-ray diffraction measurements. Proton positions are estimated using a combined approach of DFT calculations and NMR, FTIR and Raman spectroscopic techniques. The thermal expansion was examined in the range between T = 20(2) K and the compound’s decomposition temperature at 568(5) K, in which no phase transition could be observed, and Debye temperatures of 266(11) and 1566(65) K were determined for the volume expansion.


Author(s):  
Mohamed Abdelsabour Fahmy

AbstractThe main aim of this article is to develop a new boundary element method (BEM) algorithm to model and simulate the nonlinear thermal stresses problems in micropolar functionally graded anisotropic (FGA) composites with temperature-dependent properties. Some inside points are chosen to treat the nonlinear terms and domain integrals. An integral formulation which is based on the use of Kirchhoff transformation is firstly used to simplify the transient heat conduction governing equation. Then, the residual nonlinear terms are carried out within the current formulation. The domain integrals can be effectively treated by applying the Cartesian transformation method (CTM). In the proposed BEM technique, the nonlinear temperature is computed on the boundary and some inside domain integral. Then, nonlinear displacement can be calculated at each time step. With the calculated temperature and displacement distributions, we can obtain the values of nonlinear thermal stresses. The efficiency of our proposed methodology has been improved by using the communication-avoiding versions of the Arnoldi (CA-Arnoldi) preconditioner for solving the resulting linear systems arising from the BEM to reduce the iterations number and computation time. The numerical outcomes establish the influence of temperature-dependent properties on the nonlinear temperature distribution, and investigate the effect of the functionally graded parameter on the nonlinear displacements and thermal stresses, through the micropolar FGA composites with temperature-dependent properties. These numerical outcomes also confirm the validity, precision and effectiveness of the proposed modeling and simulation methodology.


AIP Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 035206
Author(s):  
P. L. Fulmek ◽  
P. Haumer ◽  
F. P. Wenzl ◽  
W. Nemitz ◽  
J. Nicolics

2015 ◽  
Vol 1107 ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Zaidatul Salwa Mahmud ◽  
N.H.M. Zaki ◽  
R. Zakaria ◽  
Mohamad Faizul Yahya ◽  
Ab Malik Marwan Ali

This paper reports on the conductivity-temperature studies of gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) based on 49% poly (methyl methacrylate) grafted-natural rubber (MG49) doped with lithium triflate salt (LiTf) and plasticized with ethylene carbonate (EC). The GPE films are prepared by solution cast technique. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies reveal the polymer electrolyte systems are amorphous. AC impedance spectroscopy is carried out in the temperature range between 303 and 373 K. The magnitudes of conductivity observed are strongly dependent on salt concentration and temperature. The high ionic conductivity at elevated temperatures of GPE is attributed to the high ionic mobility of charge carriers. The ionic migration is seen to follow the VTF behavior and approaches to Arrhenius rule at high and low at temperature. Ionic conductivity relaxation appears to be a characteristic of the ionic polarization and the modulus formalism studies confirmed the GPEs in the present investigation are ionic conductors.


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