振荡剪切流场下PS/PVME/SiO2复合物的相行为

利用光学显微镜-剪切台联用系统研究了振荡剪切流场下聚苯乙烯（PS）/聚甲基乙烯基醚（PVME）/二氧化硅（SiO₂）纳米粒子复合物的热力学稳定性. 结果表明,小振幅振荡剪切可导致PS/PVME共混物出现类似在稳态流场下的剪切诱导相容及剪切诱导相分离现象. 共混体系存在临界振荡频率ω_c,当振荡频率低于ω_c时,发生剪切诱导相分离（SID）行为,反之发生剪切诱导相容（SIM）行为. SiO₂纳米粒子的加入使复合体系的相容性提高. 存在一个临界SiO₂纳米粒子含量φ_c,当SiO₂纳米粒子含量高于φ_c时,复合体系中不存在临界振荡频率ω_c,低振荡频率下的剪切诱导相分离得到抑制. 此外,复合体系的上述行为与升温速率和共混物组成密切相关.     

基于碳纸电极电化学快速合成聚苯胺纳米纤维

利用碳纸电极,采用循环伏安法、恒电流法和恒电位法等电化学聚合法快速合成了高氯酸掺杂聚苯胺纳米纤维.利用电子显微镜、红外光谱和四探针测定仪等对聚苯胺的微观形貌结构、掺杂度和电导率进行了研究.用循环伏安法对聚苯胺的电化学特征进行了分析.研究发现,3种方法合成的聚苯胺均为纳米纤维状结构,长度达3μm,直径为50~150 nm.其中,循环伏安法合成的聚苯胺纳米纤维的均一性和电导率均优于其它2种方法,其电导率高达5.97 S/cm.另外,聚苯胺合成速率顺序为恒电流法>循环伏安法>恒电位法,且恒电流法合成的聚苯胺纳米纤维电极材料的放电比容量最大(578 F/g),电容性能最好.     

聚合物在压力下的流动诱导结晶

流动诱导聚合物结晶研究很少在压力场下开展,其原因是压力下流动诱导聚合物结晶对实验设备要求较高。然而,实际加工中不仅存在流动场,还有压力场。为此,作者课题组利用自制的装置对压力下流动诱导聚合物结晶开展了系统研究,发现其结晶行为与常压的流动诱导结晶有较大差别。等规聚丙烯(iPP)在压力和剪切场下可形成独特取向球形晶体形态。在短时间内(30min),iPP片晶可快速增厚,形成熔点接近平衡熔点的厚片晶(近180℃),其原因是在压力和流动场协同作用下,片晶增厚活化能快速减小。同时,从研究结果也获得了添加β成核剂的iPP体系在压力和流动场下形成β晶的窗口条件。对聚乳酸(PLA)的研究也发现了相似的片晶快速增厚规律。另外,在压力和流动场下,可直接从PLA熔体中获得可增韧PLA的β晶。研究成果为实际加工中的聚合物形态结构调控提供了理论和实验依据。     

剪切流场对ABA三嵌段共聚物囊泡形貌的影响

通过同轴圆筒剪切仪和磁子搅拌方式提供的剪切流场,研究了均匀和非均匀流场对ABA两亲性三嵌段共聚物囊泡的影响.研究发现,非均匀流场下囊泡尺寸及其分散度随剪切速率的增加呈现先增大后减小的规律.与搅拌形成的非均匀流场相比,在同轴剪切仪提供的均匀流场下形成的囊泡尺寸更加均匀.结果表明,剪切流场是影响囊泡形貌的重要因素,流场的不均匀性是导致组装体形貌结构多分散性的重要原因之一.     

电化学联用表面等离子体共振光谱法对苯胺电化学聚合过程的研究

采用双光电池传感器作为检测器件,设计并构建了新型表面等离子体共振( SPR)光谱仪,在一定范围内实现了SPR角度的快速测量。将此SPR光谱仪与电化学工作站联用,构建了电化学联用-时间分辨SPR ( EC-TR-SPR)光谱仪,以聚苯胺电化学制备过程为研究体系,验证了此EC-TR-SPR光谱仪的特性。同时通过对聚苯胺膜的暂态电化学方法测试(计时电流法和差分脉冲法),考察了仪器的时间分辨能力及其响应速度,验证了此仪器系统在小分子反应动力学以及稳态和暂态电化学联用方法研究中的应用价值。实验结果表明,此SPR光谱仪具有高的时间分辨能力,其时间分辨率可达0.1 ms;对聚苯胺膜的暂态电化学测试结果表明,此联用技术可实时监测SO2-4在聚苯胺膜中的掺杂和去掺杂过程,而单纯的电化学电流-时间曲线无法区分。     

简单剪切对聚合物溶液PS/DINP相分离行为的影响

通过剪切-光学显微装置在线研究了聚合物溶液聚苯乙烯(PS)/邻苯二甲酸二异壬酯(DINP)体系在静态和简单剪切场下的浊点变化及其相结构的实时演变过程,结果发现在单向剪切场下,当PS/DINP体系中PS含量在15%以下时该体系的剪切浊点基本不随剪切速率的变化而变化;当PS含量在15%以上时该体系的剪切浊点随剪切速率的增大而先增大后减小,并且不同配比下都出现一个最高相界移动,该最高相界移动随着PS含量的增加移向更高的剪切速率。此外,还发现PS/DINP近临界组成的静态相分离过程是典型的粘弹相分离。低剪切速率下的相分离过程与静态下有些相似,初期形成网络结构,并且该结构沿流动方向变形取向,但是网络结构直至实验结束也没有发生破裂,可见低剪切速率对网络结构具有一定的稳定作用。     

PBD/PDMS共混物分散相的聚并捕获行为

借助显微-剪切装置在线研究了低速剪切场下SiO2纳米粒子含量、分散相聚丁二烯(PBD)浓度和剪切速率对PBD/聚二甲基硅氧烷(PDMS)不相容体系中聚并捕获行为的影响.结果表明,聚并捕获所形成的液滴尺寸与形状规整度由粒子含量、分散相浓度和剪切速率等因素共同决定.在较低的SiO2纳米粒子含量或较高的分散相浓度下,PBD液滴在低剪切场下发生聚并捕获,形成尺寸较大、形状不规则的液滴.增加SiO2纳米粒子含量或减小分散相浓度,能够减小分散相的尺寸并提高分散相的规整度.增加剪切速率能有效地减小分散相的尺寸并提高分散相的规整度.     

苯封四聚苯胺/TiO2/ITO薄膜电极光致界面电荷转移

采用水解胶溶法和旋转涂膜法分别制备出TiO2纳米粒子溶胶和TiO2/ITO薄膜, 采用浸泡法制备出苯封四聚苯胺(聚苯胺)/TiO2/ITO薄膜电极. 利用表面光电压谱、光致循环伏安和光电流作用谱测定了TiO2的禁带宽度和表面态能级、聚苯胺的 HOMO-LUMO能级宽度和双极化子能级, 确定了聚苯胺/TiO2/ITO薄膜电极能带结构. 进一步分析了聚苯胺/TiO2/ITO薄膜电极的光电转换特性及光致界面电荷转移的机理.     

核壳型聚苯胺/钛酸钡的结构及其电流变性能

用改进的溶胶-凝胶法制备了核壳型聚苯胺/钛酸钡复合微粉,通过TEM及FT-IR分析表征了其形貌及微观结构,用复合微粉与氯化石蜡油配制成无水电流变(ER)液,研究其不同膜厚核壳粒子的电流变性能.研究结果表明,聚苯胺/钛酸钡复合粒子配置成的电流变液的电流变性能较纯聚苯胺的为强;钛酸钡的涂层厚度对复合粒子电流变性能有重要影响;并在d=20 nm时获得最佳电流变性能.     

聚苯胺修饰Pt/C催化剂对质子交换膜燃料电池动态响应的促进作用

将超级电容器材料聚苯胺引入电极催化剂中以缓冲燃料电池负载的变化.以硫酸为掺杂剂,将化学法合成的聚苯胺(PANI)与Pt/C超声分散混合,制成PANI-Pt/C催化剂.PANI-Pt/C的循环伏安测试和作为质子交换膜燃料电池阴极电催化剂的电池性能测试表明,PANI含量为10%时能够提高Pt/C催化剂对氧的还原动力学速度和燃料电池放电性能.电池在不同电流负载下的电压动态响应和对电池脉冲电流的动态响应以及PANI-Pt/C催化剂多电位电势阶跃计时电流测试显示,聚苯胺在催化剂中具有在瞬间电流负载时缓冲电池电压和电池大电流放电时平稳电压的作用.     

Electrorheological suspensions of laponite in oil: rheometry studies

We have studied the effect of an external direct current (DC) electric field ( approximately 1 kV/mm) on the rheological properties of colloidal suspensions consisting of aggregates of laponite particles in a silicone oil. Microscopy observations show that, under application of an electric field greater than a triggering electric field Ec approximately 0.6 kV/mm, laponite aggregates assemble into chain- and/or columnlike structures in the oil. Without an applied electric field, the steady-state shear behavior of such suspensions is Newtonian-like. Under application of an electric field larger than Ec, it changes dramatically as a result of the changes in the microstructure: a significant yield stress is measured, and under continuous shear the fluid is shear-thinning. The rheological properties, in particular the dynamic and static shear stress, were studied as a function of particle volume fraction for various strengths (including null) of the applied electric field. The flow curves at constant shear rate can be scaled with respect to both the particle fraction and electric field strength onto a master curve. This scaling is consistent with simple scaling arguments. The shape of the master curve accounts for the system's complexity; it approaches a standard power-law model at high Mason numbers. Both dynamic and static yield stresses are observed to depend on the particle fraction Phi and electric field E as PhibetaEalpha, with alpha approximately 1.85 and beta approximately 1 and 1.70 for the dynamic and static yield stresses, respectively. The yield stress was also determined as the critical stress at which there occurs a bifurcation in the rheological behavior of suspensions that are submitted to a constant shear stress; a scaling law with alpha approximately 1.84 and beta approximately 1.70 was obtained. The effectiveness of the latter technique confirms that such electrorheological (ER) fluids can be studied in the framework of thixotropic fluids. The method is very reproducible; we suggest that it could be used routinely for studying ER fluids. The measured overall yield stress behavior of the suspensions may be explained in terms of standard conduction models for electrorheological systems. Interesting prospects include using such systems for guided self-assembly of clay nanoparticles.     

Electrorheological fluid characterization via a vertical oscillation rheometer

A custom designed vertical oscillation rheometer (VOR) is used for the rheological measurements of electrorheological (ER) fluids consisting of 15 and 20 vol.% semiconducting polyaniline particles suspended in silicone oil. The viscoelastic material functions, including complex viscosity and complex shear modulus, are measured via geometric parameters, measured force, and applied strain of the VOR. Viscoelastic properties of the ER fluids are also measured as a function of applied electric field strength and particle concentration. The VOR, equipped with a high voltage generator, can easily be constructed and used to measure ER properties. It is further found that polyaniline suspensions behave as viscoelastic materials in an electric field. In linear viscoelastic conditions, elasticity was promoted with the increment of electric field due to particle chain structure in the presence of the applied electric field. It is also found that the applied electric field rather than particle concentration enhanced the elasticity of ER fluids.     

Effect of polymerization temperature on polyaniline based electrorheological suspensions

As one of the intrinsically polarizable materials used in electrorheological (ER) fluid, polyaniline was synthesized by the chemical oxidation of aniline with ammonium peroxysulfate. ER fluids were prepared by dispersing polyaniline particles in silicone oil, and their rheological properties were measured. The effect of the polymerization temperature of polyaniline on its ER characteristics was investigated. ER fluids with polyaniline particles synthesized at −10°C (PA-10) showed the best ER performance (yield stress) compared with those synthesized at higher temperatures. A difference in the flow behavior of the ER fluids was also investigated through the dielectric spectra of ER fluids. Received: 24 March 1988 Accepted: 3 August 1998     

Transient response of an electrorheological fluid under square-wave electric field excitation

The transient process of an electrorheological (ER) fluid based on zeolite and silicone oil sheared between two parallel plates to which a square-wave electric field is applied has been experimentally studied. The transient shear stress response to the strain or time is tested. The characteristic constants of time under different applied electric fields and shear rates have been determined. The response time is found to be proportional to shear rate with an exponent of about -0.75 in the tested shear rate range, which agrees with the theoretical predictions made by others. But it only shows a small dependence on the strength of the applied electric field. The results show that the transient process of ER fluids is related to the structure formation in the shearing. When the required shear strain is reached, the shear stress rises to a stable value under constant electric field. Although the electric field strength greatly affects the yield strength, it shows little effect on the stress response time. Also, experiments showed the electric field-induced shear stress decreased with an increase of shear rate.     

Monodisperse conducting colloidal dipoles with symmetric dimer structure for enhancing electrorheology properties

This study introduces an electrorheological (ER) approach that allows us to obtain remarkably enhanced ER properties by using monodisperse colloidal dimer particles. Two sets of colloidal particles, which are spheres and symmetric dimers, were synthesized employing the seeded polymerization technique. The aspect ratio of dimer particles was ~1.43. Then, the surface of the particles was coated with polyaniline by using the chemically oxidative polymerization method. After preparation of the particle suspensions having the same particle volume and concentration, their ER behavior was investigated with changing the electric field strength. At the same experimental condition, both shear stress and shear yield stress of the dimer particle suspension remarkably increased, compared with those of the spherical particle suspension. This attributes to the fact that the shape anisotropy of suspending particles effectively led to increase in the dipole moment under the electric field, thus resulting in formation of a well-structured colloidal chains between the electrodes.     

ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DIATOMITE/SILICONE OIL SUSPENSIONS UNDER DC FIELDS

In this study, electrorheological （ER） behavior of suspensions prepared from 3.0 and 9.0 μm diatomite particulate, dispersed in insulating silicone oil （SO） medium was investigated. Sedimentation stabilities of suspensions （c = 5 wt%） prepared using these diatomite powders were determined to be 32 days （d = 3 μm） and 24 days （d = 9 μm）, respectively. ER activity of all the suspensions was observed to increase with increasing electric field strength, concentration and decreasing shear rate. Shear stress of diatomite suspensions increased linearly with increasing concentrations of the particles and with the applied electric field strength. Electric field viscosity of all the suspensions decreased sharply with increasing shear rate and particle size, showing a typical shear thinning non-Newtonian visco-elastic behavior. Effects of high temperature and polar promoter onto ER activity ofdiatomite/SO system were also investigated.     

Quasi-static electrorheological properties of hematite/silicone oil suspensions under DC electric fields

In this work, a modified rheometer has been used to gain information on the "start-up" of the shear flow of an electrorheological (ER) fluid consisting of hematite particles dispersed in silicone oil. The results show that unelectrified suspensions behave essentially as fluids, continuously deforming upon application of shear. However, this behavior changes in the presence of an electric field. For low fields and low volume fractions of solids, a solidlike (drastic increase in shear stress after the strain is applied) behavior is observed for small deformations. If the strain is increased, the yield starts and a transition to a viscoelastic-plastic nature is observed. Finally, a plastic behavior is characteristic of the post-yield regime. If the field strength and solids content are high, a discontinuous flow profile develops. These results, together with direct structural observations, suggest that the observed behavior is compatible with the formation of layers of particles electrophoretically deposited on the electrodes; the layers turn into rings when the shear field is applied. It is the slip of the fluid between these rings that can be considered responsible for the ER effect in these suspensions.     

Differences in the electrorheological response of a particle suspension under direct current and alternating current electric fields

We have observed an unusual reduction of shear stress with increasing shear rate under direct current electric fields, for an electrorheological fluid composed of sulfonated poly(styrene-co-divinylbenzene) particles dispersed in silicone oil. At all shear rates, the shear stress under the electric field is larger than that in the absence of the field, indicating that there is still some field-induced agglomeration of the particles. In contrast, the behavior under alternating current electric fields is the Bingham-fluid-type response commonly observed with electrorheological fluids. It is suggested that the conventional dipole–dipole interaction approach based on simplified microstructural models would be unable to explain these phenomena. Received: 27 November 2000 Accepted: 22 May 2001     

Synthesis and electrorheological characterization of emulsion-polymerized dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid doped polyaniline-based suspensions

The electrorheological (ER) properties of dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid (DBSA) doped polyaniline suspensions in silicone oil were investigated. In contrast to chemically polymerized polyaniline in an acidic aqueous medium by oxidation polymerization, we adopted an emulsion polymerization technique in which aniline is polymerized in an emulsion of water and a nonpolar (or weakly polar) organic solvent. The effects of electric field strength and particle concentration on the ER properties of DBSA-doped polyaniline suspensions in silicone oil were then examined. Rheological measurements were also carried out using a rotational rheometer with a high-voltage generator in both controlled shear rate and shear stress modes, and the results showed that the ER properties were enhanced by increasing the particle concentration and electric field. Received: 23 August 1999 Accepted: 6 April 2000