TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermoreversible gelation in poly(ethylene oxide)/carbon black hybrid melts
AU - Kelarakis, Antonios
AU - Krysmann, Marta J.
AU - Giannelis, Emmanuel P.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-10-08
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUS-C1-018-02
Acknowledgements: This material is partially based on work supported as part of the Energy Materials Center at Cornell, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001086. This publication is based on work supported in part by Award No. KUS-C1-018-02, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The study focuses on the structure and viscoelasticity of poly(ethylene oxide)/carbon black fluids. The hybrids when subjected to extreme thermal annealing (at temperatures far above the melting point of the matrix) exhibit a 3-4 orders of magnitude increase in viscosity. Surprisingly, the effect is reversible and the viscosity reverts back to its initial value upon subsequent cooling. This rather unique sol-gel transition in terms of strength, steepness and thermal reversibility points to major structural rearrangements via extensive particle clustering, in agreement with microscopy observations. In related systems it was found that when matrix-particle electrostatic interactions are present the gelation is essentially diminished.
AB - The study focuses on the structure and viscoelasticity of poly(ethylene oxide)/carbon black fluids. The hybrids when subjected to extreme thermal annealing (at temperatures far above the melting point of the matrix) exhibit a 3-4 orders of magnitude increase in viscosity. Surprisingly, the effect is reversible and the viscosity reverts back to its initial value upon subsequent cooling. This rather unique sol-gel transition in terms of strength, steepness and thermal reversibility points to major structural rearrangements via extensive particle clustering, in agreement with microscopy observations. In related systems it was found that when matrix-particle electrostatic interactions are present the gelation is essentially diminished.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/672259
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0032386114009215
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84908681911&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.10.023
DO - 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.10.023
M3 - Article
SN - 1873-2291
VL - 55
SP - 6278
EP - 6281
JO - POLYMER
JF - POLYMER
IS - 24
ER -