Complex dynamics in polymer nanocomposites

Srivastava, S. ; Kandar, A. K. ; Basu, J. K. ; Mukhopadhyay, M. K. ; Lurio, L. B. ; Narayanan, S. ; Sinha, S. K. (2009) Complex dynamics in polymer nanocomposites Physical Review E, 79 (2). ISSN 1539-3755

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.021408

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.021408

Abstract

Polymer nanocomposites offer the potential to create a new type of hybrid material with unique thermal, optical, or electrical properties. Understanding their structure, phase behavior, and dynamics is crucial for realizing such potentials. In this work we provide an experimental insight into the dynamics of such composites in terms of the temperature, wave vector, and volume fraction of nanoparticles, using multispeckle synchrotron x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy measurements on gold nanoparticles embedded in polymethylmethacrylate. Detailed analysis of the intermediate scattering functions reveals possible existence of an intrinsic length scale for dynamic heterogeneity in polymer nanocomposites similar to that seen in other soft materials like colloidal gels and glasses.

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