Scocchi, Giulio and Posocco, Paola and Handgraaf, Jan-Willem and Fraaije, Johannes GEM and Fermeglia, Maurizio and Pricl, Sabrina (2009) A complete multiscale modelling approach for polymer--clay nanocomposites. Chemistry-A European Journal, 15 (31). pp. 7586-7592. ISSN 1521-3765
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We present an innovative, multiscale computational approach to probe the behaviour of polymer-clay nanocomposites (PCNs). Our modeling recipe is based on 1) quantum/force-field-based atomistic simulation to derive interaction energies among all system components; 2) mapping of these values onto mesoscopic bead-field (MBF) hybrid-method parameters; 3) mesoscopic simulations to determine system density distributions and morphologies (i.e., intercalated versus exfoliated); and 4) simulations at finite-element levels to calculate the relative macroscopic properties. The entire computational procedure has been applied to two well-known PCN systems, namely Nylon 6/Cloisite 20A and Nylon 6/Cloisite 30B, as test materials, and their mechanical properties were predicted in excellent agreement with the available experimental data. Importantly, our methodology is a truly bottom-up approach, and no "learning from experiment" was needed in any step of the entire procedure.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Physical sciences > Materials science |
| Depositing User: | Giulio Scocchi |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2015 07:24 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2016 06:45 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/5934 |
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