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Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites
Polymer nanocomposite materials, consisting of a polymer matrix embedded with nanoscale fillers or additives that reinforce the inherent properties of the matrix polymer, play a key role in many industrial applications. Understanding of the relation between thermodynamic interactions and macroscopic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33266901 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21020186 |
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author | Dai, Xiaobin Hou, Cuiling Xu, Ziyang Yang, Ye Zhu, Guolong Chen, Pengyu Huang, Zihan Yan, Li-Tang |
author_facet | Dai, Xiaobin Hou, Cuiling Xu, Ziyang Yang, Ye Zhu, Guolong Chen, Pengyu Huang, Zihan Yan, Li-Tang |
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description | Polymer nanocomposite materials, consisting of a polymer matrix embedded with nanoscale fillers or additives that reinforce the inherent properties of the matrix polymer, play a key role in many industrial applications. Understanding of the relation between thermodynamic interactions and macroscopic morphologies of the composites allow for the optimization of design and mechanical processing. This review article summarizes the recent advancement in various aspects of entropic effects in polymer nanocomposites, and highlights molecular methods used to perform numerical simulations, morphologies and phase behaviors of polymer matrices and fillers, and characteristic parameters that significantly correlate with entropic interactions in polymer nanocomposites. Experimental findings and insight obtained from theories and simulations are combined to understand how the entropic effects are turned into effective interparticle interactions that can be harnessed for tailoring nanostructures of polymer nanocomposites. |
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spelling | pubmed-75146682020-11-09 Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites Dai, Xiaobin Hou, Cuiling Xu, Ziyang Yang, Ye Zhu, Guolong Chen, Pengyu Huang, Zihan Yan, Li-Tang Entropy (Basel) Review Polymer nanocomposite materials, consisting of a polymer matrix embedded with nanoscale fillers or additives that reinforce the inherent properties of the matrix polymer, play a key role in many industrial applications. Understanding of the relation between thermodynamic interactions and macroscopic morphologies of the composites allow for the optimization of design and mechanical processing. This review article summarizes the recent advancement in various aspects of entropic effects in polymer nanocomposites, and highlights molecular methods used to perform numerical simulations, morphologies and phase behaviors of polymer matrices and fillers, and characteristic parameters that significantly correlate with entropic interactions in polymer nanocomposites. Experimental findings and insight obtained from theories and simulations are combined to understand how the entropic effects are turned into effective interparticle interactions that can be harnessed for tailoring nanostructures of polymer nanocomposites. MDPI 2019-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7514668/ /pubmed/33266901 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21020186 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Dai, Xiaobin Hou, Cuiling Xu, Ziyang Yang, Ye Zhu, Guolong Chen, Pengyu Huang, Zihan Yan, Li-Tang Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites |
title | Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites |
title_full | Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites |
title_fullStr | Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites |
title_full_unstemmed | Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites |
title_short | Entropic Effects in Polymer Nanocomposites |
title_sort | entropic effects in polymer nanocomposites |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514668/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33266901 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21020186 |
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