Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
5 years ago

Entrapped Styrene Butadiene Polymer Chains by Sol–Gel-Derived Silica Nanoparticles with Hierarchical Raspberry Structures

Entrapped Styrene Butadiene Polymer Chains by Sol–Gel-Derived Silica Nanoparticles with Hierarchical Raspberry Structures
Petr Formanek, Gert Heinrich, Sankar Raman Vaikuntam, Kay Saalwächter, Sven Wießner, Ulrich Scheler, Amit Das, Eshwaran Subramani Bhagavatheswaran, Klaus Werner Stöckelhuber
A sol-gel transformation of liquid silica precursor to solid silica particles was carried out in a one pot synthesis way where a solution of styrene butadiene elastomer (S-SBR) was present. The composites, thus produced, offered remarkable improvements of mechanical and dynamic mechanical performances as compared with precipitated silica. The morphological analysis reveals that the alkoxy-based silica particles resemble a raspberry structure when the synthesis of the silica was carried out in presence of polymer molecules and represent a much more open silica-network structure. However, in absence of polymer the morphology of the silica particles is found to be different. It is envisaged that the special morphology of the in-situ synthesized silica particles contributes to the superior reinforcement effects which are associated with a strong silica-rubber interaction by rubber chains trapped inside the raspberry-like silica aggregates. Therefore, the interfaces are characterized in detail by low-field solid-state 1H NMR spectroscopy, 29Si solid-state NMR spectroscopy and energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDX). Low-field 1H NMR based double-quantum (DQ) experiments provide a quantitative information about the crosslink density of the silica filled rubber composites and about the influence of silane coupling agent on the chemical crosslink density of the network and correlates well with equilibrium swelling measurements. The special microstructure of the alkoxy-based silica was found to be associated with the interaction between alkoxy-based silica and rubber chains as a consequence of particle growth in presence of rubber chains.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b11792

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b11792

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