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ArticlePolymers2017

Aggregation Behavior of Nano-Silica in Polyvinyl Alcohol/Polyacrylamide Hydrogels Based on Dissipative Particle Dynamics.

Qinghua Wei, Yanen Wang, Yingfeng Zhang, Xiongbiao Chen

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Article in Polymers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Qinghua WeiDepartment of Industry Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China. weiqinghua@mail.nwpu.edu.cn.
Yanen WangDepartment of Industry Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China. wangyanen@126.com.
Yingfeng ZhangDepartment of Industry Engineering, College of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China. zhangyf@nwpu.edu.cn.
Xiongbiao ChenDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N5A9, Canada. wangyanen@nwpu.edu.cn.
Northwestern Polytechnical University · CNUniversity of Saskatchewan · CA

Funding

China Scholarship Council 201606290095Innovation Platform of Biofabrication 17SF0002Key Industrial Science and technology projects of Shaanxi 2015GY047National Natural Science Foundation of China 51175432Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-2014-05648
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the aggregation behavior of nano-silica in aqueous solution, the use of nano-silica without surface modification for synthesizing hydrogels is still a challenging task. This paper presents our study on the use of dissipative particle dynamics simulations to discover the aggregation behavior of nano-silica in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/polyacrylamide (PAM) blended hydrogels. By simulations, we aimed at investigating the effects of such factors as nano-silica content, polymer component ratio, temperature and shear rate on the aggregation behavior of nano-silica in terms of the mesoscopic morphologies and the relative concentration distribution functions. Our results reveal that the dispersion of nano-silica is seen if the nano-silica content is increased to 1.5%, and the aggregation of nano-silica becomes noticeable in blended hydrogels with an increase in the nano-silica content. This finding agrees well with the experimental results obtained by means of scanning electron microscopy. Furthermore, it is also found that the dispersion of nano-silica becomes more uniform with an increase in PAM content, temperature and shear rate. These findings greatly enrich our understanding of the aggregation behavior of nano-silica in PVA/PAM blended hydrogels.

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aggregation behaviordissipative particle dynamicsnano-silicaPVA/PAM blended hydrogelrelative concentration distributions

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PMID30965914
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