动态流变法在聚合物/聚合物界面分子链扩散研究中的应用

聚合物/聚合物界面的分子链扩散问题在塑料注塑、焊接、共混等领域普遍存在.动态流变法是研究聚合物/聚合物界面分子链扩散的一种有力手段,这种方法对于界面间分子链扩散的监测非常灵敏.本文简述了用动态流变法研究聚合物/聚合物界面扩散的原理、实验方法以及优点,着重讨论了采用该方法研究初始界面分子链末端分布对扩散机理的影响、对称聚合物/聚合物界面分子链扩散的量化,非对称聚合物/聚合物界面的相互扩散,分子量多分散性对聚合物/聚合物界面扩散的影响,聚合物/聚合物界面间的流动和扩散耦合以及近年来动态流变法在化学反应型聚合物/聚合物界面的应用进展.     

高分子界面聚合动力学模拟研究进展

界面聚合是制备功能聚合物材料的重要手段,其产物的结构和性能与界面厚度及其化学特性、聚合速率、扩散速率等多种热力学和动力学因素有关.实验受限于表征手段,对理解界面聚合的动力学机理仍有很大难度.计算机模拟可以站在微观视角研究这一过程,是明确界面聚合产物结构与性质影响因素的有力工具.本文以我们课题组近年来的工作为主线,对当前在界面聚合模拟研究领域所取得的系统和创新性成果进行总结和评述.从界面聚合模拟方法的发展、固-液相界面聚合体系以及液-液相界面聚合体系3个方面进行介绍,为相关功能聚合物材料的理性设计和精准调控提供新的思路.     

聚合物熔体界面分子链扩散的流变学研究

以2种完全相容的多分散的聚合物树脂为研究对象,利用动态流变学手段实现了界面分子链扩散过程的实时检测.研究结果发现,完全相容的聚合物树脂之间的扩散动力学参数α具有相对分子质量差异的依赖性,两者之间相对分子质量差异越大,α值越大.通过流变学参数还可获得另一扩散动力学参数—特征时间tc,从而得以计算出组分之间扩散系数,研究结果表明所获得的扩散系数具有频率依赖性.     

聚合物熔体膜在基体表面的润湿和铺展行为

聚合物熔体膜在基体表面上的润湿和铺展行为受铺展系数和Hamaker常数影响。对于不能在基体表面上铺展的聚合物膜,当处于其玻璃化温度以上时,聚合物熔体膜将破裂,出现非连续区域。随着体系处于聚合物玻璃化温度以上时间的延长,非连续部分尺寸不断增长,增长速率与表面张力、聚合物粘度、聚合物液滴在基体表面的平衡接触角等因素有关,平衡后聚合物以液滴的形式在基体表面稳定存在。将带功能端基聚合物加入不能在基体表面上铺展的聚合物中,通过修饰聚合物与基体界面或改变聚合物熔体膜的表面张力,可以使原来不能在基体表面铺展的聚合物保持稳定。本文综述了聚合物熔体膜的铺展和润湿动力学研究进展,并归纳了使聚合物熔体膜稳定的方法。     

通过熔体自由基反应调控聚丙烯体系的链结构和相结构

熔融反应加工是聚合物改性和制备聚合物纳米复合材料的重要途径之一.在此过程中,多数加成聚合物由于受到热、剪切或引发剂作用,通常可原位形成大分子自由基反应中间体.我们系统地研究了如何利用这类大分子自由基调控聚合物分子链的拓扑结构和聚合物纳米复合体系的相结构与界面.然而,某些聚合物大分子自由基,如聚丙烯(PP),受其分子链化学结构决定,在熔融反应条件下非常易于发生降解.研究发现,将可控自由基聚合中调控自由基反应活性的方法应用在熔融反应过程中可以显著抑制PP的降解,促进主反应的发生,在制备长链支化聚合物、调控聚合物纳米复合材料的相结构方面发挥了重要作用.本文介绍了本研究组近几年来通过熔体自由基反应调控PP体系的链结构和相结构的相关研究工作,如实现PP的长链支化,制备高熔体强度PP;在制备PP/C60 、PP/碳纳米管(CNTs)纳米复合材料过程中,利用熔体界面区域所发生的自由基反应,提高了纳米粒子与PP的界面相互作用,改善了纳米粒子在PP中的分散状态等.     

一个判别液晶聚合物状态的新方法

伴随液晶相转变而产生的转变焓、转变熵可提供有关各相的结构、状态及有序度等信息.本文从动力学、热力学角度分析了液晶聚合物从各向同性熔体冷却时系统的热熵变化,建立了液晶聚合物升降温过程中的热熵图,提出了定量判断液晶聚合物从各向同性熔体冷却后所处状态的新方法.     

聚丙烯/硫酸钡复合体系的界面相互作用与流变性质和结晶行为的关系

制备了一系列具有不同界面状态的聚丙烯 (PP) 硫酸钡 (BaSO4)复合体 .PP BaSO4的界面分别用硅烷、硬脂酸、马来酸酐接枝聚丙烯 (PP g MAH)改性 .研究表明 ,填充体系的熔体粘度和熔体弹性均高于基体 .以硅烷和PP g MAH进行界面改性后 ,PP BaSO4的界面相互作用加强 ,导致复合体系中的熔体粘度和熔体弹性进一步提高 ,同时BaSO4对PP的成核活性提高 .填料用硬脂酸处理后 ,硬脂酸能够在填料粒子表面上形成一个包覆层 ,使粒子与PP的亲和性改善 .同时该包覆层具有润滑作用 ,使得复合体系的熔体粘度和熔体弹性下降 ,并使得该体系中BaSO4的成核活性低于硅烷和处理的体系 .本文探讨了由复合体系的熔体粘度定量比较填充复合体系中聚合物 填料界面相互作用的方法 ,讨论了界面改性对复合体系流变性质和结晶行为影响的机理     

聚合物纳米复合体系中聚合物结构及动力学研究进展

从计算模拟及实验角度系统总结了聚合物结构、 聚合物构象、 聚合物扩散及聚合物多尺度动力学的研究进展, 阐述了各影响因素及其变化规律, 并对聚合物动力学的未来研究进行了展望.     

受限状态聚合物熔体的分子动力学模拟

用粗粒化的分子动力学(MD)模拟方法从分子层次研究了受限于粗糙壁内的聚合物熔体的动力学性质. 结果表明, 对于链长较短的受限聚合物熔体体系, 随着膜厚的增加, 体系内部高分子链的松弛时间逐渐减少; 然而对于链长较长的受限体系, 聚合物链的松弛时间随着膜厚的增加先减少后增加. 推测这种由于链长的变化所引起的动力学性质的差异源自受限熔体内聚合物链聚集状态的改变, 并且通过考察交叠参数对这种改变进行了分析. 结果表明, 在膜厚增加的过程中, 决定受限状态高分子长链松弛机理的因素逐渐从受限效应转变成为链间的缠结效应.     

结晶生长的化学键合理论及其在稀土晶体快速生长中的应用

高温稀土晶体的快速生长能够在很大程度上降低晶体的生长成本,然而过快的生长速度会造成熔体上方过冷,带来晶体开裂等严重的质量问题.本文从生长界面处的微观化学键合结构出发研究晶体的可控生长过程,理论上证明了结晶热力学和动力学协同控制晶体生长界面处的化学键合过程.计算结果表明界面处化学键合结构在单晶生长中具有决定性作用.本文还从轨道杂化的角度研究了稀土离子的成键特性,可用于研究稀土离子在生长界面处的化学键合结构.针对大尺寸稀土氧化物晶体,结晶生长的化学键合理论可以定量优化晶体的系列生长参数,将各向异性的结晶热力学表达和各向同性的结晶动力学表达控制在不同尺度区间,实现高品质稀土晶体快速生长.     

Time-dependent Diffusion Coefficient and Conventional Diffusion Constant of Nanoparticles in Polymer Melts by Mode-coupling Theory (cited: 2)

Time-dependent diffusion coefficient and conventional diffusion constant are calculated and analyzed to study diffusion of nanoparticles in polymer melts. A generalized Langevin equa-tion is adopted to describe the diffusion dynamics. Mode-coupling theory is employed to calculate the memory kernel of friction. For simplicity, only microscopic terms arising from binary collision and coupling to the solvent density fluctuation are included in the formalism. The equilibrium structural information functions of the polymer nanocomposites required by mode-coupling theory are calculated on the basis of polymer reference interaction site modelwith Percus-Yevick closure. The effect of nanoparticle size and that of the polymer size are clarified explicitly. The structural functions, the friction kernel, as well as the diffusion coefficient show a rich variety with varying nanoparticle radius and polymer chain length. We find that for small nanoparticles or short chain polymers, the characteristic short time non-Markov diffusion dynamics becomes more prominent, and the diffusion coefficient takes longer time to approach asymptotically the conventional diffusion constant. This constant due to the microscopic contributions will decrease with the increase of nanoparticle size, while increase with polymer size. Furthermore, our result of diffusion constant from mode-coupling theory is compared with the value predicted from the Stokes-Einstein relation. It shows that the microscopic contributions to the diffusion constant are dominant for small nanoparticles or long chain polymers. Inversely, when nanonparticle is big, or polymer chain is short, the hydrodynamic contribution might play a significant role.     

What is the role of the interfacial interaction in the slow relaxation of nanometer-thick polymer melts on a solid surface?

At the nanoscale and interfaces, the relaxation behavior of polymer melts, which affects the polymer's long-term performance in many important applications, is very different from that in the bulk. The role of polymer-substrate interfacial interaction, which does not have a bulk counterpart, has not been fully understood to date. In this study, the relaxation of nanometer-thick perfluoropolyether melts on a silicon wafer has been investigated by water contact angle measurement. The polymer-substrate interactions have been systematically changed by tailoring the polymer structure to clarify the effect of the interfacial interaction. The experimental results show that (1) when there is attractive interaction at the interface, some polymers are anchored to the substrate and others are free, (2) the attractive interfacial interaction drives the free polymers to relax at the interface, and (3) the relaxation is much slower than in the bulk, which has been attributed to the low mobility of the anchored polymer chains and the motional cooperativity between anchored and free polymer chains in the nanometer-thick films.     

Continuum theory of polymer crystallization

We present a kinetic model of crystal growth of polymers of finite molecular weight. Experiments help to classify polymer crystallization broadly into two kinetic regimes. One is observed in melts or in high molar mass polymer solutions and is dominated by nucleation control with G approximately exp(1/TDeltaT), where G is the growth rate and DeltaT is the supercooling. The other is observed in low molar mass solutions (as well as for small molecules) and is diffusion controlled with G approximately DeltaT, for small DeltaT. Our model unifies these two regimes in a single formalism. The model accounts for the accumulation of polymer chains near the growth front and invokes an entropic barrier theory to recover both limits of nucleation and diffusion control. The basic theory applies to both melts and solutions, and we numerically calculate the growth details of a single crystal in a dilute solution. The effects of molecular weight and concentration are also determined considering conventional polymer dynamics. Our theory shows that entropic considerations, in addition to the traditional energetic arguments, can capture general trends of a vast range of phenomenology. Unifying ideas on crystallization from small molecules and from flexible polymer chains emerge from our theory.     

Probing the polymer anomalous dynamics at solid/liquid interfaces at the single-molecule level

A goal across multiple scientific fields (e.g. separations, polymer processing, and biomaterials) is to understand polymer dynamics at solid/liquid interfaces. In the last two decades, rapid developments in single-molecule techniques have revolutionized our ability to directly observe molecular behaviors with ultra-high spatial/temporal resolution and to decouple the elementary processes that were often veiled in ensemble experiments. This review provided an overview of principle and realization of two single-molecule fluorescence techniques that were often used to study the interfacial dynamics. In addition, this review updated recent progress in the discovery and understanding of dynamical anomalies of polymers at solid/liquid interfaces using these single-molecule techniques, emphasizing important elementary processes of diffusion, adsorption, and desorption.     

Relation between interfacial wave instability and tensile strength of two-layer polymer structure: An experimental study

<正>The existence of interfacial instability at the interface of multilayer polymeric flows is well known.This article is designed mainly to provide guidelines for the development of experimental techniques for the improvement of two-layer polymer products in the polymer processing industry.This is done by performing a series of tensile tests on extrudate two-layer polymer melts in order to get insight into the relation between interfacial wave and mechanical properties of LLDPE/HDPE polymer system.Observed variations of the mechanical properties have been related to the conformation of the interfacial wave so that a relationship between interface morphology corresponding to extrusion instabilities and mechanical characteristics of the interfacial strength for polymer melts extrudate is established.     

Length scales in heterogeneous polymers from solid state NMR

New methods for probing structure and dynamics of heterogeneous polymers by multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) are described. On the molecular level high resolution multiple quantum spectroscopy of solids probes connectivities of different functional groups on length scales below 1 nm. On a mesoscopic scale NMR spin diffusion techniques probe phase separation and interfacial effects in polymer blends and block copolymers. On a macroscopic scale NMR imaging techniques allow to spatially resolve differences in order and mobility in the necking region or in shearbands of deformed polymers. The techniques are illustrated with amorphous polymers, elastomers, and core-shell systems.     

Theory of nanoparticle diffusion in unentangled and entangled polymer melts

We propose a statistical dynamical theory for the violation of the hydrodynamic Stokes-Einstein (SE) diffusion law for a spherical nanoparticle in entangled and unentangled polymer melts based on a combination of mode coupling, Brownian motion, and polymer physics ideas. The non-hydrodynamic friction coefficient is related to microscopic equilibrium structure and the length-scale-dependent polymer melt collective density fluctuation relaxation time. When local packing correlations are neglected, analytic scaling laws (with numerical prefactors) in various regimes are derived for the non-hydrodynamic diffusivity as a function of particle size, polymer radius-of-gyration, tube diameter, degree of entanglement, melt density, and temperature. Entanglement effects are the origin of large SE violations (orders of magnitude mobility enhancement) which smoothly increase as the ratio of particle radius to tube diameter decreases. Various crossover conditions for the recovery of the SE law are derived, which are qualitatively distinct for unentangled and entangled melts. The dynamical influence of packing correlations due to both repulsive and interfacial attractive forces is investigated. A central finding is that melt packing fraction, temperature, and interfacial attraction strength all influence the SE violation in qualitatively different directions depending on whether the polymers are entangled or not. Entangled systems exhibit seemingly anomalous trends as a function of these variables as a consequence of the non-diffusive nature of collective density fluctuation relaxation and the different response of polymer-particle structural correlations to adsorption on the mesoscopic entanglement length scale. The theory is in surprisingly good agreement with recent melt experiments, and new parametric studies are suggested.     

Effect of polymer surface morphology on adhesion and adhesive joint strength. II. FEP Teflon and nylon 6

Heterogeneous nucleation and crystallization of FEP Teflon and nylon 6 melts against high energy surfaces (i.e., gold) produce an interfacial region, in these polymers, of high mechanical strength. Dissolution of the metal substrate rather than removal by mechanical means results in a polymer surface which is amenable to conventional structural adhesive bonding. Nucleation and crystallization of the polymer melts in contact with phases of low surface energy (e.g., vapor) result in the generation of weak boundary layers.     

高分子动力学的单链模型

高分子单链模型是高分子稀溶液理论研究的基本模型.对其进行深入地分析,不仅有助于解决高分子稀溶液体系中溶液黏度和分子链扩散等基本问题,而且能够增进人们对高分子链结构与溶液性质间关联性的理解.虽然基于经典连续性介质力学的流体动力学理论可以定性,甚至半定量地获得稀溶液的一些重要性质,但是,随着科学技术的发展,人们从分子水平上建立了许多描述高分子稀溶液性质的模型和理论,期望能够定量地描述高分子稀溶液的性质.本文以高分子稀溶液中3个典型的单链模型为例(包括:不含流体力学相互作用的Rouse模型、含二体流体力学相互作用的Zimm模型和含多体流体力学相互作用的部分穿透球模型),综述高分子稀溶液的重要性质,并详细地给出其动力学方程的推导过程及其重要的研究进展.特别是,对于Rouse模型,本文还将其预言结果拓展到了短链高分子流体体系;此外,还介绍了这一领域的关键科学问题、发展前景和研究方向.