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AuthorZhang X.
AuthorZhao J.
AuthorSnyder C.R.
AuthorAl-Enizi A.
AuthorEltazahry A.
AuthorSimmons D.S.
AuthorKarim A.
Available date2020-03-18T08:10:09Z
Publication Date2018
Publication NamePolymer Engineering and Science
ResourceScopus
ISSN323888
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.24693
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/13334
AbstractThe current work presents a new approach to achieve high quality dispersion of surfactant-free nanoclay tactoid particles in sub-micron thin films despite the absence of organic modifier. Natural Montmorillonite particles, Na+ Cloisite, were dispersed in thin films of polycaprolactone (PCL) through a flow coating technique assisted by ultra-sonication. Wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS), grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GI-WAXS), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used to confirm the level of natural clay dispersion down to the level of tactoids (sub-micron scale stacks of clay sheets). These characterization techniques were carried out in conjunction with an analysis of nanomechanical properties via strain-induced buckling instability for modulus measurements (SIEBIMM), a high-throughput technique to characterize thin film mechanical properties. The buckling patterns indicate that the natural clay tactoids separate buckling-enhancing (high-modulus) crystalline regions and interconnect buckling-suppressing amorphous (low-modulus) regions. Due to the tactoid length scale, the glass transition behavior of the composites as characterized by broadband dielectric relaxation spectroscopy was unmodified by the clay. Likewise, the glass transition temperature, Tg, and fragility (slope of relaxation time behavior approaching Tg), remain unaffected, indicating that these dispersed tactoids do not induce pronounced confinement effects on dynamics. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 58:1285?1295, 2018. ? 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers. ? 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers
SponsorDepartment of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 44325 2Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20899 3Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia 4Materials Science and Technology Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, PO Box 2713, Doha, Qatar & Polymer Materials Research Department, Advanced Technology and New Materials Research Institute, City for Scientific Research and Technology Applications, New Borg El-Arab City, Alexandria, Egypt
Languageen
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons Inc.
Subjectsurfactant-free
clay nanocomposite films
TitleStructure, nanomechanics, and dynamics of dispersed surfactant-free clay nanocomposite films
TypeArticle
Pagination1285 - 1295
Issue Number8
Volume Number58
dc.accessType Abstract Only


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