低场固体NMR研究纳米复合凝胶结构与动力学

纳米复合水凝胶复杂的微观结构和动力学决定了其宏观性能,阐明其结构和动力学的非均匀性对揭示凝胶相变机理、认识其宏观物理和化学性质和设计新型高分子凝胶都具有重要意义.通过合成不同粘土含量的系列聚异丙基丙烯酰胺(PNIPAm)/锂藻土纳米复合水凝胶,运用多种先进的低场固体NMR技术详细研究了凝胶微观结构和动力学的非均匀性.首先建立了分析多组分凝胶体系中刚性和柔性高分子组分相对含量的计算方法,然后在不同粘土含量下,通过测量凝胶FID信号和质子T1定量研究了凝胶中刚性和柔性高分子组分的相对含量;通过偶极滤波双量子NMR实验,研究了体系中与交联密度关联的残余偶极作用参数随黏土含量的变化.结果表明:在纳米复合水凝胶中,随着粘土含量的增加,凝胶中聚合物的刚性相增加,而柔性相下降,当粘土含量达到12%(Wclay/Wwater)时体系中的刚性相含量趋于平衡.多量子实验结果表明,随着粘土含量的增加,纳米复合水凝胶中高分子链的残余偶极作用参数逐渐增大,反映了体系中高分子链的受限运动和二维无机纳米片层形成的物理交联密度增大的趋势.

Low-Field NMR Studies on the Structure and Dynamics of Nanocomposite Hydrogels

The macroscopic properties of soft matters are largely determined by their composition and the molecular mobility of each component. In this work, we used low field solid-state NMR to study the composition and dynamics of nanocomposite hydrogels with different clay contents. It was found that the content of rigid phase increased, while and the content of soft phase decreased with increasing clay content. A turning point of 12% W_clay/W_water was found, above which the content of rigid phase tended to be a constant. The dipolar coupling constants were measured with double-quantum (DQ) experiments, and the results showed that the confinement of polymer chains and the crosslink density increased with the clay content.