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Jamming in Filled Polymer Systems
Author(s) -
Richter Sven,
Saphiannikova Marina,
Stöckelhuber Klaus Werner,
Heinrich Gert
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.201050523
Subject(s) - jamming , polycarbonate , materials science , elastomer , carbon nanotube , polymer , monomer , saturation (graph theory) , composite material , flocculation , polymer science , chemical engineering , thermodynamics , physics , mathematics , combinatorics , engineering
Abstract After an introduction into the general characteristics of the jamming behavior, two filler flocculation experiments on a polycarbonate melt filled with multi‐walled carbon nanotubes and on a silica‐filled ethylene propylene diene monomer elastomer are presented. We propose that these experiments can be regarded as jamming phenomena. The experimental data are successfully modeled using the power saturation equation. Further insights into the physics of such jamming processes have been obtained with the help of X‐ray photon correlation spectroscopy experiments.