Control of selective location of homopolymer-brush grafted nanoparticles in binary polymer blends
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Abstract The location of SiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) grafted with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) brushes in a phase-separated PMMA/styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN) copolymer (60/40) blend is investigated. The NPs with brushes being much larger than the matrix PMMA chains are located in the PMMA-rich phase. Otherwise, they are easily distributed at the interfacial region between the PMMA- and SAN-rich domains, which is confirmed to be driven by the entropy-dominated interfacial energy between PMMA matrix and brush chains. Based on the semi-quantitative estimation of the interfacial energy, a diagram of state is established to precisely predict the location of NPs in the phase-separated blend matrix with respect to grafting parameters and the molecular weight of chemically similar matrix polymer, which is also applicable to data in other literatures. It can provide a simple and universal strategy to regulate the selective distribution of NPs in a wide range of nanocomposites.
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OpenAlex topics: Polymer Surface Interaction Studies · Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization · Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
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