Nano-scale free volume and mobility in PDMS/carbornane nanocomposites

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We wish to establish the relationship between free volume and molecular mobility in a series of PDMS-nanoparticle composites. The size of the free volume has already been determined using positron annihilation spectroscopy. It was found that there is less effect from covalently bound nanoparticles as compared to a simple physical dispersion. Although the free volume generally correlates well with the properties (such as glass transition temperature) the effects of the covalent binding may lead to pinning of the holes and a reduction in mobility. We therefore wish to measure the molecular mobility using QENS on the same samples.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42589343
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42589343
Provenance
Creator Professor Rob Richardson; Professor Ashraf Alam; Mr David Hughes; Dr Mina Roussenova
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-10-15T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-23T23:00:00Z