Polymer-infiltrated nanoparticle films using capillarity-based techniques: Toward multifunctional coatings and membranes

RB Venkatesh, N Manohar, Y Qiang… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Polymer-infiltrated nanoparticle films (PINFs) are a new class of nanocomposites that offer
synergistic properties and functionality derived from unusually high fractions of …

Effect of physical nanoconfinement on the viscosity of unentangled polymers during capillary rise infiltration

JL Hor, H Wang, Z Fakhraai, D Lee - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
We investigate the role of physical confinement on the polymer viscosity and the glass
transition temperature (T g) of unentangled polymers undergoing capillary rise infiltration …

Origin of mechanical enhancement in polymer nanoparticle (NP) composites with ultrahigh NP loading

EY Lin, AL Frischknecht, RA Riggleman - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Polymer nanoparticle composites (PNCs) with ultrahigh loading of nanoparticles (NPs)(>
50%) have been shown to exhibit markedly improved strength, stiffness, and toughness …

Chain and segmental dynamics in polymer–nanoparticle composites with high nanoparticle loading

EY Lin, AL Frischknecht, RA Riggleman - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent experimental and simulation studies have shown that polymer–nanoparticle (NP)
composites (PNCs) with ultra-high NP loading (> 50%) exhibit remarkable mechanical …

The interplay of polymer bridging and entanglement in toughening polymer-infiltrated nanoparticle films

Y Qiang, SS Pande, D Lee, KT Turner - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polymer-nanoparticle composite films (PNCFs) with high loadings of nanoparticles (NPs)(>
50 vol%) have applications in multiple areas, and an understanding of their mechanical …

Conflicting effects of extreme nanoconfinement on the translational and segmental motion of entangled polymers

RB Venkatesh, D Lee - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Physically confining polymers into nanoscale pores induces significant changes in their
dynamics. Although different results on the effect of confinement on the dynamics of …

Toughening nanoparticle films via polymer infiltration and confinement

Y Jiang, JL Hor, D Lee, KT Turner - ACS applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Disordered nanoparticle films have significant technological applications as coatings and
membranes. Unfortunately, their use to date has been limited by poor mechanical …

Insights from modeling into structure, entanglements, and dynamics in attractive polymer nanocomposites

A Moghimikheirabadi, M Kröger, AV Karatrantos - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Conformations, entanglements and dynamics in attractive polymer nanocomposites are
investigated in this work by means of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation, for …

Water‐Induced Separation of Polymers from High Nanoparticle‐Content Nanocomposite Films

BQ Kim, M Füredi, RB Venkatesh, S Guldin, D Lee - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer nanocomposites with high loadings of nanoparticles (NPs) exhibit exceptional
mechanical and transport properties. Separation of polymers and NPs from such …

Patterning polymer-filled nanoparticle films via leaching-enabled capillary rise infiltration (LeCaRI)

R BharatháVenkatesh, S HunáHan - Nanoscale Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer-infiltrated nanoparticle films (PINFs) are a class of nanocomposites with unusual
and synergistic physical properties due to the extremely high loadings (well above 50 vol%) …