Srivastava, Sunita and Kumar, Joydeep Basu (2007) Influence of nanoparticles on glass transition of polymers. JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, 7 (6). pp. 2102-2104. ISSN 1533-4880
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Abstract
Tunability of glass transition temperature of poly-methylmethacrylate has been achieved using homogeneously dispersed gold nanoparticles of different weight fraction within the polymer matrix. Remarkably, depression in glass transition temperature with respect to the neat polymer was observed for poly-methylmethacrylate (120K and 15 K) by varying the weight fraction of the gold nanoparticles contrary to the conventional results in literature which shows elevation in $T_g$ for attractive polymer-particle interaction, as is the case here. The magnitude of the shift in glass transition temperature is large for the higher of the two molecular weight of poly-methylmethacrylate studied here. Possible explanations of the observed behavior are provided, although more experiments are underway to unravel the intricacies of the observed phenomena.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Material Science > Functional and hybrid materials Physical Science > Nanophysics Material Science > Nanofabrication processes and tools Physical Science > Nano objects Material Science > Soft materials Material Science > Nanostructured materials Material Science > Nanochemistry |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Physics Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Chemistry |
| ID Code: | 3924 |
| Deposited By: | JNCASR |
| Deposited On: | 27 Jan 2009 04:05 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2009 04:05 |
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