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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 63: Polymer and Molecular Dynamics II
CPP 63.4: Talk
Thursday, March 15, 2018, 10:15–10:30, C 264
Hyperbranched PAMAM/ Kaolinite Nanocomposites: Decoupling phenomenon and conductivity mechanism — •Shereen Omara1,2, Gamal Turky2, Mona H Abdel Rehim2, and Andreas Schönhals1 — 1Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und- prüfung (BAM), Unter den Eichen 87, 12205 Berlin, Germany — 2National Research Centre (NRC), 33 El Behouth St., Dokki, Giza, P.O.12622, Egypt
Increasing demands of the daily life requires a continuous discovering of new and tailored properties of materials that can be utilized in covering the requirements in several fields. Hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) are macromolecules that are characterized by a highly branched structure and multiplicity of reactive end groups, which could be promising for numerous applications. Here, hyperbranched poly(amidoamine) (HPAMAM)/ Ka nanocomposites was prepared via an in-situ polymerization and an ex-situ method. The latter approach leads to a partly intercalated structure of the nanocomposites, while the former method results in an exfoliated morphology. Α combination of different techniques such as broadband dielectric spectroscopy (DBS), SXAS, FTIR, TEM, and DSC are employed to study the prepared samples. For the HPAMAM/ Ka-DCA nanocomposites (an ex-situ samples), the results indicated that the dc conductivity is increased by 4 orders of magnitude, with increasing concentration of the Ka-DCA. As an interesting result is that a significant decoupling between the characteristic time for conductivity relaxation and the segmental dynamics was observed, which depends on the concentration of the nanofiller.