Utilizing exfoliated clay-poly(norbornene) nanocomposite prepared by metal-mediated surface-initiated polymerization as model end-tethered polymers on an organoclay substrate

College

College of Science

Department/Unit

Chemistry

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Journal of Applied Physics

Volume

127

Issue

16

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Abstract

Current interest in dispersion strategies for nanoparticle fillers is driving research into covalently attached polymer brushes. The primary need for these “hairy nanoparticles” is for testing and developing new technologies based on polymer nanocomposites. To that end, we have prepared polymer nanocomposites with covalently tethered chains on a naturally occurring montmorillonite clay template via a metal-mediated surface-initiated ring opening metathesis polymerization approach. The nanocomposites were characterized in terms of polymer:clay composition and of various chain architecture parameters such as molecular weight, polydispersity index, and grafting density. © 2018 Royal Society Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1063/1.5143825

Disciplines

Chemistry

Keywords

Nanocomposites (Materials); Nanoparticles; Ring-opening polymerization

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