Simulation study on the effect of nanoparticle size on the glass transition temperature of polymer nanocomposites

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Azhar Ashraaf Khan ◽  
Hang-Kai Qi ◽  
Jian-Hua Huang ◽  
Meng-Bo Luo

The effect of the size of nanoparticles, σNP, on the glass transition temperature, Tg, of polymer nanocomposites is studied by using molecular dynamics simulations. The variation of Tg with σNP...

Author(s):  
Raja Azhar Ashraaf Khan ◽  
Xian Chen ◽  
Hang-Kai Qi ◽  
Jian-Hua Huang ◽  
Meng-Bo Luo

The effect of nanoparticles on the glass transition temperature, Tg, of polymer nanocomposites is studied by using molecular dynamics simulations. Tg is estimated from the variation of system volume with...


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (25) ◽  
pp. 16498-16506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myung Shin Ryu ◽  
Hyoung Gyu Kim ◽  
Hyun You Kim ◽  
Kyung-Shin Min ◽  
Hak Joo Kim ◽  
...  

In this study, we developed an equation to evaluate the pseudo-ternary Tg of quaternary SBR and plotted the ternary contour Tg plot for SBR with a variety of styrene compositions.


Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
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pp. 8420-8433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Monica Olvera de la Cruz

We investigate the glass transition behavior of ion-containing polymers via molecular dynamics simulations, revealing its coupling with ionic correlations as well as variations of the glass transition temperature in bulk and thin films.


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