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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 83, 2015
QENS/WINS 2014 - 11th International Conference on Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and 6th International Workshop on Inelastic Neutron Spectrometers
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| Article Number | 02009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | QENS 2014 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158302009 | |
| Published online | 23 January 2015 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158302009
Polymer dynamics in nanoconfinement: Interfaces and interphases
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Forschungszentrum Jülich (JCNS-1) and Institute for Complex Systems (ICS), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
a Corresponding author: m.krutyeva@fz-juelich.de
Published online: 23 January 2015
The dynamics of polymers in nanoconfinement was studied by using neutron spectroscopy. A number of pronounced effects on different time and length scales for the polymers confined in nanopores of anodic aluminium oxide were observed. Local segmental dynamics was found to be dependent on the type of the interaction between the solid pore wall and polymer: attractive interactions lead to the formation of a surface layer with the dynamics slowed down as compared to the dynamics of pure polymer; neutral/repulsive interaction do not change the local dynamics. Attractive interactions cause anchoring of polymer segments on the surface creating an interphase between the polymer in close vicinity to the solid surface and pure polymer. In addition, at strong confinement conditions the dilution of the entanglement network is observed.
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