Collaborative Research: Molecular Structure and Phase Separation Behavior of Novel Phosphate-glass / Polymer Hybrids Studied by Advanced Solid-state NMR and Rheometry Methods

合作研究：通过先进的固态核磁共振和流变测量方法研究新型磷酸盐玻璃/聚合物杂化物的分子结构和相分离行为

• 批准号: 0652400
• 负责人: Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
• 金额: $ 9.6万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0652400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Molecular; Structure; Phase

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The results of this work will play an important role in the nation?s interest in developing advanced materials for new and existing applications. The materials are expected to possess a number of desirable properties that will make them useful applications such as solid electrolytes for solid-state batteries or polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells and as storage materials for nuclear wastes. The facile synthesis and desirable properties of the hybrid materials will make them excellent model systems for exploring feasibility of new routes for driving inorganic glasses and organic polymers to self-assemble into useful materials, making them widely applicable. The project will provide research training to graduate students and will also take advantage of complementary expertise and research resources at University of Southern Mississippi, ETH Zurich, and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The project will also advance the graduate students careers by learning how fundamental interdisciplinary knowledge can be used to solve a practical problem. The strong working relations the investigators have developed via an existing NSF-supported U.S.-Switzerland research cooperation, and with SNL will provide critical guidance and clear focus on relevance of the project. The University of Southern Mississippi has a sizable minority student population who could benefit from training in the broad area of materials science and engineering.TECHNICAL DETAILS: The ultimate goal of this collaborative interdisciplinary research project is to better understand the fundamental science governing the phase separation dynamics, thermorheology, and structure formation in low-Tg inorganic phosphate-glass (Pglass)/polymer hybrid system and to identify accurate, predictive models of relationships between fundamental molecular structures and rheological properties of the hybrids. This is a first step toward establishing rational synthesis and design principles to guide the synthesis and processing of new hybrid materials. By using a variety of experimental methods such as advanced solid-state NMR and thermorheological techniques, the investigators propose to understand the Pglass phase separation behavior and its effect on microstructure of the novel low-Tg inorganic Pglass/polymer hybrid materials, and to identify the technological potential of this new class of hybrid materials. The results obtained from these studies will used to test whether or not existing theories on phase separation and self-assembly reported in the literature on simple polymer systems are applicable, and may reduce or eliminate costly "trial and error" practices common in the literature and industry. In addition, advanced solid-state NMR methods for reliably measuring and characterizing the hybrid structure and interactions on the molecular and the nanometer scale will be used and improved. To avoid disappointingly slow progress in prior attempts, mostly in industry, to follow one approach while neglecting the others, this proposal combines the three approaches to rational design and synthesis of materials (i.e., at the molecular level, by materials processing, and by surface chemistry). The diversification of approach and cooperation discussed in this proposal should become more critical as ceramic materials research continues to overlap other materials such as polymers and electro-optical materials. The interface and the fortuitous miscibility in the liquid state between the hybrid components for the rheology and phase separation, the extent of mixing, particularly at the interface between the phase domains and sizes, the favorable reactions between the hybrid components, and the remarkable hybrid viscosity decrease by the Pglass addition will be critical in determining a number of the desirable hybrid properties.

非技术性描述：这项工作的成果将在全国发挥重要作用？公司对开发新的和现有的应用先进材料的兴趣。预期这些材料具有许多所需的性质，这将使它们成为有用的应用，例如用于固态电池的固体电解质或用于燃料电池的聚合物电解质膜以及作为核废料的储存材料。杂化材料的易合成性和良好的性能将使它们成为探索驱动无机玻璃和有机聚合物自组装成有用材料的新途径的可行性的优秀模型系统，使它们具有广泛的应用。该项目将为研究生提供研究培训，并将利用南密西西比大学、ETH苏黎世大学和桑迪亚国家实验室（SNL）的互补专业知识和研究资源。该项目还将通过学习如何利用基本的跨学科知识来解决实际问题来推进研究生的职业生涯。调查人员通过现有的NSF支持的美国-瑞士的研究合作，并与SNL将提供关键的指导和明确的重点，该项目的相关性。南密西西比大学拥有大量的少数民族学生，他们可以从材料科学和工程的广泛领域的培训中受益。这个跨学科合作研究项目的最终目标是更好地理解相分离动力学，热流变学，和结构形成的低Tg无机磷酸盐玻璃（Pglass）/聚合物杂化系统，并确定准确的，预测模型的基本分子结构和杂化材料的流变性能之间的关系。这是建立合理的合成和设计原则，以指导新的杂化材料的合成和加工的第一步。通过使用各种实验方法，如先进的固态NMR和热流变技术，研究人员提出了解Pglass相分离行为及其对新型低Tg无机Pglass/聚合物杂化材料的微观结构的影响，并确定这类新的杂化材料的技术潜力。从这些研究中获得的结果将被用来测试是否现有的理论相分离和自组装在简单的聚合物系统的文献中报道是适用的，并可能减少或消除昂贵的“试错”的做法，在文献和行业中常见的。此外，将使用和改进先进的固态核磁共振方法，以可靠地测量和表征分子和纳米尺度上的混合结构和相互作用。为了避免在先前的尝试中，主要是在工业中，遵循一种方法而忽视其他方法的令人不快的缓慢进展，该提议结合了合理设计和合成材料的三种方法（即，在分子水平上、通过材料处理和通过表面化学）。由于陶瓷材料研究继续与聚合物和电光材料等其他材料重叠，本提案中讨论的方法和合作的多样化应变得更加重要。对于流变学和相分离，混合组分之间的界面和在液态下的偶然的可溶解性，混合的程度，特别是在相域和尺寸之间的界面处，混合组分之间的有利反应，以及通过Pglass添加的显著的混合粘度降低将是确定许多所需混合性质的关键。