Hörstermann, Henning and Hentschke, Reinhard and Amkreutz, Marc and Hoffmann, Michael and Wirts-Rütters, Martin (2010) Predicting Water Sorption and Volume Swelling in Dense Polymer Systems via Computer Simulation. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114 (51). pp. 17013-17024. ISSN 1520-6106. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150622-080825151
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Abstract
Atomistic model structures of amorphous polyamide 6 (PA-6) and of an adhesive system consisting of the diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) as epoxy resin and isophorone diamine (IPD) as a curing agent are generated. For the adhesive, we use a new approach for the generation of the cross-linked polymer networks. It takes into account the chemical reaction kinetics of the curing reaction and, therefore, results in more realistic network structures. On the basis of the corresponding model structures, the equilibrium water content and the swelling ratio of amorphous PA-6 and of the DGEBA+IPD networks are calculated via computer simulation for different thermodynamic conditions. A hybrid method is used combining the molecular dynamics technique with an accelerated test particle insertion method. The results are in reasonable agreement with experiments and, in the case of the PA-6 system, with results obtained via other computer simulation methods.
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Additional Information: | © 2010 American Chemical Society. Received: June 7, 2010; Revised Manuscript Received: November 17, 2010. This work was supported through a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Grant No.: 03 x 0502). We are also grateful to Jens Koschel (Sartorius AG), Jana Kolbe (Fraunhofer IFAM), Karsten Maenz (Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH), and Enno Oyen (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) for a number of helpful discussions. | |||||||||
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Official Citation: | Predicting Water Sorption and Volume Swelling in Dense Polymer Systems via Computer Simulation Henning Hörstermann, Reinhard Hentschke, Marc Amkreutz, Michael Hoffmann, and Martin Wirts-Rütters The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2010 114 (51), 17013-17024 DOI: 10.1021/jp105210y | |||||||||
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