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Radius ratio rule for surface hydrophilization of polydimethyl siloxane and silica nanoparticle composite

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Title Radius ratio rule for surface hydrophilization of polydimethyl siloxane and silica nanoparticle composite
 
Creator Toutam, Vijaykumar
Jain, Puneet
Sharma, Rina
Bathula, Sivaiah
Dhar, Ajay
 
Subject Physical Chemistry
Materials Science
Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
 
Description Polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS) and Silica (SiO2) nanoparticle composite blocks of three different batches (CB1-CB3) made by varying the size of SiO2 nanoparticles (NP), are studied for the degree of hydrophilization and retainability after oxidation by contact angle measurements (CA) and force distance spectroscopy (FDS) using Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). While CA measurements have shown high hydrophilization and retainability for CB3, F-D spectroscopy has reiterated the observation and has shown long range interactive forces and high Debye length of the electrostatic double layer formed. These results are in agreement with the radius ratio rule of binary sphere system for high density packing in the composite and thereby for strong hydrophilization and retainability due to reinforcement and restricted diffusion of uncured polymer.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2015-09-15
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/1968/1/275.pdf
Toutam, Vijaykumar and Jain, Puneet and Sharma, Rina and Bathula, Sivaiah and Dhar, Ajay (2015) Radius ratio rule for surface hydrophilization of polydimethyl siloxane and silica nanoparticle composite. Applied Surface Science, 349. pp. 196-199. ISSN 0169-4332
 
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