納米材料表面的分子狀態(tài)是決定材料表面現(xiàn)象(潤(rùn)濕、摩擦、粘結(jié)等)和物理性能(力學(xué)、流變、結(jié)晶等)的關(guān)鍵因素。研究高分子表面分子的弛豫行為不僅有助于尋找調(diào)控納米材料性能的新方法,還可為揭示玻璃化的本質(zhì)這一凝聚態(tài)物理長(zhǎng)期懸而未決的問(wèn)題提供新的視角和證據(jù)。研究發(fā)現(xiàn),玻璃態(tài)高分子表面存在一層運(yùn)動(dòng)能力增強(qiáng)的“活性層”;隨著遠(yuǎn)離表面,分子運(yùn)動(dòng)能力逐漸減弱直至回到本體狀態(tài)。然而,對(duì)于表面增強(qiáng)分子運(yùn)動(dòng)能力的傳遞距離和梯度分布規(guī)律的爭(zhēng)論,以及實(shí)驗(yàn)上高空間分辨率測(cè)量表面附近局部分子弛豫時(shí)間(或玻璃化轉(zhuǎn)變溫度,Tg)的困難,阻礙了該領(lǐng)域的進(jìn)一步發(fā)展。
Fig. 1. Experimental depth profiles Tgne(z) taken at the surface of various c-PMMA polymers. Dashed lines are the best fits to a linear gradient.
Fig. 2. Simulation results revealing intrinsic nonequilibrium effects on near-surface τ(z) of long-chain films. (A) Segmental relaxation time τ vs. inverse temperature for various segmental layers at different distances z/σ from the surface (σ is the length scale of the bead-spring potential). The dotted lines represent the low-temperature cutoff for inclusion of equilibrium relaxation time data and τ = tANN,max = 106. The curved lines show fits of the data to an established model for equilibrium dynamics. (B) Normalized alteration gradients of Tgeq and Tgne relative to bulk for systems with tANN,max = 105 and 106. The solid line shows a fit of Tgeq (z) to an exponential gradient form to the Tgeq data, while the dotted lines represent linear fits to the surface region.
論文鏈接:www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406262121
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