ArticlePolymers2017
Polymer Conformation under Confinement.
Article in Polymers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The Effects of Chain Conformation and Nanostructure on the Dielectric Properties of Polymers.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Static and Dynamic Behavior of Polymer/Graphite Oxide Nanocomposites before and after Thermal Reduction.Polymers · 2021Article
- Effect of Gelation Temperature on the Molecular Structure and Physicochemical Properties of the Curdlan Matrix: Spectroscopic and Microscopic Analyses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
The conformation of polymer chains under confinement is investigated in intercalated polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites. Hydrophilic poly(ethylene oxide)/sodium montmorillonite, PEO/Na⁺-MMT, hybrids were prepared utilizing melt intercalation with compositions where the polymer chains are mostly within the ~1 nm galleries of the inorganic material. The polymer chains are completely amorphous in all compositions even at temperatures where the bulk polymer is highly crystalline. Attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) is utilized to investigate the conformation of the polymer chains over a broad range of temperatures from below to much higher than the bulk polymer melting temperature. A systematic increase of the
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