摘要

The results for the diffusivity of nanoparticles in unentangled semidilute polymer solutions obtained using coarse-grained simulations are presented. The results indicate that for particle sizes smaller than the polymer radius of gyration, the nanoparticle diffusivities deviate from Stokes-Einstein predictions and depend explicitly on the polymer radius of gyration and the polymer solution correlation lengths. Scaling ideas proposed are invoked for rationalizing such noncontinuum effects and demonstrate that the simulation results could be collapsed onto a single universal function of the depletion thickness, the polymer radius of gyration, and the particle radius.

  • 出版日期2016-11-1