Atomic Force Microscopy Nanomechanical Mapping Visualizes Interfacial Broadening between Networks Due to Chemical Exchange Reactions

Journal of the American Chemical Society
Changfei HeDong Wang

Abstract

The interfacial broadening between two different epoxy networks having different moduli was nanomechanically mapped. The interfacial broadening of the two networks produced an interfacial zone having a gradient in the concentration and, hence, properties of the original two networks. This interfacial broadening of the networks leads to the generation of a new network with a segmental composition corresponding to a mixture of the original two network segments. The intermixing of the two, by nature of the exchange reactions, was on the segmental level. By mapping the time dependence of the variation in the modulus at different temperatures, the kinetics of the exchange reaction was measured and, by varying the temperature, the activation energy of the exchange reaction was determined.

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