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SUBMITTER: Karatrantos A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6403637 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Karatrantos Argyrios A Koutsawa Yao Y Dubois Philippe P Clarke Nigel N Kröger Martin M
Polymers 20180910 9
We investigate the effect of various spherical nanoparticles in a polymer matrix on dispersion, chain dimensions and entanglements for ionic nanocomposites at dilute and high nanoparticle loading by means of molecular dynamics simulations. The nanoparticle dispersion can be achieved in oligomer matrices due to the presence of electrostatic interactions. We show that the overall configuration of ionic oligomer chains, as characterized by their radii of gyration, can be perturbed at dilute nanopar ...[more]