TY - JOUR
T1 - Automated scanning probe microscopy as a new tool for combinatorial polymer research
T2 - Conductive carbon black/poly(dimethylsiloxane) composites
AU - Neffati, Riadh
AU - Alexeev, Alexander
AU - Saunin, Sergey
AU - Brokken-Zijp, José C.M.
AU - Wouters, Daan
AU - Schmatloch, Stefan
AU - Schubert, Ulrich S.
AU - Loos, Joachim
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/1/24
Y1 - 2003/1/24
N2 - A systematic investigation into the surface properties of siloxane rubber/carbon black (CB) nanocomposites has been performed, using an automated scanning probe microscope. In this way the influence of CB concentration and curing rate of the siloxane rubber matrix on roughness and conductivity of the composites was studied. Decreasing the curing rate while keeping the CB concentration resulted in a decrease in both roughness and surface conductivity, which can be explained by an additional siloxane-rubber layer formed during curing.
AB - A systematic investigation into the surface properties of siloxane rubber/carbon black (CB) nanocomposites has been performed, using an automated scanning probe microscope. In this way the influence of CB concentration and curing rate of the siloxane rubber matrix on roughness and conductivity of the composites was studied. Decreasing the curing rate while keeping the CB concentration resulted in a decrease in both roughness and surface conductivity, which can be explained by an additional siloxane-rubber layer formed during curing.
KW - Automated AFM
KW - Carbon black nanocomposites
KW - Combinatorial materials research
KW - Conductivity
KW - High-throughput experimentation
KW - Siloxane rubbers
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U2 - 10.1002/marc.200390000
DO - 10.1002/marc.200390000
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037462949
VL - 24
SP - 113
EP - 117
JO - Macromolecular Rapid Communications
JF - Macromolecular Rapid Communications
SN - 1022-1336
IS - 1
ER -