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微凝胶界面诱导的滞后体积相变:模拟与实验

Interface-induced hysteretic volume phase transition of microgels: simulation and experiment

Jannis Kolker, Johannes Harrer, Simone Ciarella, Marcel Rey, Maret Ickler, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Nicolas Vogel, Hartmut Löwen

摘要:

温度响应性微凝胶颗粒在溶剂温度升高时可表现出剧烈的体积收缩。最近,我们发现聚(N-异丙基丙烯酰胺)(PNiPAm)微凝胶在液体界面的表面张力的影响下的扩展阻碍了温度诱导的体积相变。此外,我们观察到的温度循环后的滞后行为,即在微凝胶的大小和形状取决于是否微凝胶最初吸附到膨胀或塌陷状态的界面不同的演变。在这里,我们模拟的体积相变的微凝胶在空气/水界面的单体分辨布朗动力学模拟和比较所观察到的行为与实验。我们重现实验观察到的滞后在温度变化后的微凝胶尺寸。我们的模拟没有观察到任何滞后分散在散装液体中的微凝胶,这表明它的结果从不同的界面形态的微凝胶吸附在液体界面。最初塌陷的微凝胶被带到界面,并经历随后的溶胀和塌陷(分别为:冷却和加热)将以比其在原始塌缩状态下更大的尺寸结束。然而,进一步的温度循环仅显示出大大降低的滞后,与我们的实验观察一致。我们将滞后行为归因于动力学捕获的初始塌陷配置,其在膨胀状态下膨胀时松弛。我们发现线性PNiPAm链吸附到一个接口类似的行为。我们结合实验-模拟研究提供了新的见解的体积相变的PNiPAm材料吸附到液体界面。

英文摘要:

Thermo-responsive microgel particles can exhibit a drastic volume shrinkage upon increasing the solvent temperature. Recently we found that the spreading of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNiPAm) microgels at a liquid interface under the influence of surface tension hinders the temperature-induced volume phase transition. In addition, we observed a hysteresis behavior upon temperature cycling, i.e. a different evolution in microgel size and shape depending on whether the microgel was initially adsorbed to the interface in expanded or collapsed state. Here, we model the volume phase transition of such microgels at an air/water interface by monomer-resolved Brownian dynamics simulations and compare the observed behavior with experiments. We reproduce the experimentally observed hysteresis in the microgel dimensions upon temperature variation. Our simulations did not observe any hysteresis for microgels dispersed in the bulk liquid, suggesting that it results from the distinct interfacial morphology of the microgel adsorbed at the liquid interface. An initially collapsed microgel brought to the interface and subjected to subsequent swelling and collapsing (resp. cooling and heating) will end up in a larger size than it had in the original collapsed state. Further temperature cycling, however, only shows a much reduced hysteresis, in agreement with our experimental observations. We attribute the hysteretic behavior to a kinetically trapped initial collapsed configuration, which relaxes upon expanding in the swollen state. We find a similar behavior for linear PNiPAm chains adsorbed to an interface. Our combined experimental - simulation investigation provides new insights into the volume phase transition of PNiPAm materials adsorbed to liquid interfaces.

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