A novel shift in the glass transition temperature of polymer nanocomposites: A molecular dynamics simulation study

Author(s):  
Raja Azhar Ashraaf Khan ◽  
Xian Chen ◽  
Hang-Kai Qi ◽  
Jian-Hua Huang ◽  
Meng-Bo Luo

The effect of nanoparticles on the glass transition temperature, Tg, of polymer nanocomposites is studied by using molecular dynamics simulations. Tg is estimated from the variation of system volume with...

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Azhar Ashraaf Khan ◽  
Hang-Kai Qi ◽  
Jian-Hua Huang ◽  
Meng-Bo Luo

The effect of the size of nanoparticles, σNP, on the glass transition temperature, Tg, of polymer nanocomposites is studied by using molecular dynamics simulations. The variation of Tg with σNP...


2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 669-675
Author(s):  
HAO-YANG LIU ◽  
WEN-BING ZHANG ◽  
XIAN-WU ZOU ◽  
YIN-QUAN YUAN ◽  
ZHUN-ZHI JIN

The glass transition for the soft sphere system with Morse potential was investigated based on molecular dynamics simulation and partition function analysis. The dependence of the glass transition temperature on the density and the softness of the potential was obtained.


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