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Bieligmeyer, Matthias ; Taheri, Sara Mehdizadeh ; German, Ian ; Boisson, Christophe ; Probst, Christian ; Milius, Wolfgang ; Altstädt, Volker ; Breu, Josef ; Schmidt, Hans-Werner ; D'Agosto, Franck ; Förster, Stephan:
Completely Miscible Polyethylene Nanocomposites.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Vol. 134
(2012)
Issue 44
.
- pp. 18157-18160.
ISSN 1520-5126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ja307297c
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Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
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A route to fully miscible polyethylene (PE) nanocomposites has been established based on polymer-brush-coated nanoparticles. These nanoparticles can be mixed with PE at any ratio, with homogeneous dispersion, and without aggregation. This allowed a first systematic study of the thermomechanical properties of PE nanocomposites without interference from aggregation effects. We observe that the storage modulus in the semicrystalline state and the softening temperature increase significantly with increasing nanoparticle content, whereas the melt viscosity is unaltered by the presence of nanoparticles. We show that the complete miscibility with the semicrystalline polymer matrix and the improvement of thermomechanical properties in the solid state is caused by the PE-coated nanoparticles being nucleating agents for the crystallization of PE. This provides a general route to fully miscibility nanocomposites with semicrystalline polymers.