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Segmental dynamics in interfacial region of composite materials

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In this work, we preformed dynamic Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the interfacial behaviors of polymers with two-dimensional filler. It was found that both the distributions of local segmental mobility and local glass transition temperatures in interfacial regions are controlled by interfacial interaction. For the system without interfacial interaction, the segments near interface have stronger mobility than those in bulk, due to the lower segment density. If the interfacial interaction is weakly attractive, there is no obvious difference of mobility between the interfacial and internal segments and no bound polymer exists near the interface. If the attractive interfacial interaction is strong, a gradient of local glass transition temperatures was observed, which demonstrates the presence of bound polymers in many layers with different segmental mobility. These findings could be used to explain the various experimental results about the segmental dynamics in the interfacial regions of polymer nanocomposites.

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Acknowledgements

The financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21404050) are gratefully acknowledged. The Graduate Innovation project of Jiangsu Province (No. KYZZ16_0333), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2012CB821500), the Research Foundation of Jiangsu University (No. 14JDG059), the Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds (No. 1402019A), and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2015M580394) are also appreciated. In addition, the authors want to express their gratitude to Jiangsu Province for supporting this project under the innovation/entrepreneurship program (Surencaiban[2015]26).

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    Tongfan Hao, Zhiping Zhou, Yue Wang, Yong Liu, Ding Zhang, Yijing Nie, Ya Wei & Songjun Li

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Hao, T., Zhou, Z., Wang, Y. et al. Segmental dynamics in interfacial region of composite materials. Monatsh Chem 148, 1285–1293 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-017-1917-9

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