TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eckert, Alexander
A1  - Rudolph, Tobias
A1  - Guo, Jiaqi
A1  - Mang, Thomas
A1  - Walther, Andreas
T1  - Exceptionally Ductile and Tough Biomimetic Artificial Nacre with Gas Barrier Function
JF  - Advanced Materials
N2  - Synthetic mimics of natural high-performance structural materials have shown great and partly unforeseen opportunities for the design of multifunctional materials. For nacre-mimetic nanocomposites, it has remained extraordinarily challenging to make ductile materials with high stretchability at high fractions of reinforcements, which is however of crucial importance for flexible barrier materials. Here, highly ductile and tough nacre-mimetic nanocomposites are presented, by implementing weak, but many hydrogen bonds in a ternary nacre-mimetic system consisting of two polymers (poly(vinyl amine) and poly(vinyl alcohol)) and natural nanoclay (montmorillonite) to provide efficient energy dissipation and slippage at high nanoclay content (50 wt%). Tailored interactions enable exceptional combinations of ductility (close to 50% strain) and toughness (up to 27.5 MJ m⁻³). Extensive stress whitening, a clear sign of high internal dynamics at high internal cohesion, can be observed during mechanical deformation, and the materials can be folded like paper into origami planes without fracture. Overall, the new levels of ductility and toughness are unprecedented in highly reinforced bioinspired nanocomposites and are of critical importance to future applications, e.g., as barrier materials needed for encapsulation and as a printing substrate for flexible organic electronics.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201802477
VL  - 30
IS  - 32
SP  - Article number 1802477
PB  - Wiley-VCH
ER  - 
TY  - PAT
A1  - Friederici, Nadja-Annette
A1  - Hojdis, Nils
T1  - Fahrzeugreifen
N2  - Die Erfindung betrifft einen Fahrzeugreifen mit zumindest einem radial außen befindlichen Gummilaufstreifen, Wulstbereichen für den Anschluss an eine Felge und mit auf einer Gummimischung basierenden Seitenwandbereichen zwischen Gummilaufstreifen und den Wulstbereichen. Ferner betrifft die Erfindung Verfahren zur Herstellung solcher Fahrzeugreifen. Um den Anteil der umweltschädlichen Substanzen, insbesondere im Innenstadtbereich, zu reduzieren weisen die Seitenwandbereiche auf der äußeren Oberfläche eine für den oxidativen Abbau von Molekülen photokatalytisch aktive Substanz auf.
Y1  - 2018
N1  - Patent DE102016219338A1 04.12.2018
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Svaneborg, Carsten
A1  - Karimi-Varzaneh, Hossein Ali
A1  - Hojdis, Nils
A1  - Fleck, Franz
A1  - Everaers, Ralf
T1  - Kremer-Grest Models for Universal Properties of Specific Common Polymer Species
JF  - Soft Condensed Matter
N2  - The Kremer-Grest (KG) bead-spring model is a near standard in Molecular Dynamic simulations of generic polymer properties. It owes its popularity to its computational efficiency, rather than its ability to represent specific polymer species and conditions. Here we investigate how to adapt the model to match the universal properties of a wide range of chemical polymers species. For this purpose we vary a single parameter originally introduced by Faller and Müller-Plathe, the chain stiffness. Examples include polystyrene, polyethylene, polypropylene, cis-polyisoprene, polydimethylsiloxane, polyethyleneoxide and styrene-butadiene rubber. We do this by matching the number of Kuhn segments per chain and the number of Kuhn segments per cubic Kuhn volume for the polymer species and for the Kremer-Grest model. We also derive mapping relations for converting KG model units back to physical units, in particular we obtain the entanglement time for the KG model as function of stiffness allowing for a time mapping. To test these relations, we generate large equilibrated well entangled polymer melts, and measure the entanglement moduli using a static primitive-path analysis of the entangled melt structure as well as by simulations of step-strain deformation of the model melts. The obtained moduli for our model polymer melts are in good agreement with the experimentally expected moduli.
Y1  - 2018
IS  - 1606.05008
ER  -