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Tunable thermo-reversible bicontinuous nanoparticle gel driven by the binary solvent segregation

AbstractBicontinuous porous structures through colloidal assembly realized by non-equilibrium process is crucial to various applications, including water treatment, catalysis and energy storage. However, as non-equilibrium structures are process-dependent, it is very challenging to simultaneously achieve reversibility, reproducibility, scalability, and tunability over material structures and properties. Here, a novel solvent segregation driven gel (SeedGel) is proposed and demonstrated to arrest bicontinuous structures with excellent thermal structural reversibility and reproducibility, tunable domain size, adjustable gel transition temperature, and amazing optical properties. It is achieved by trapping nanoparticles into one of the solvent domains upon the phase separation of the binary solvent. Due to the universality of the solvent driven particle phase separation, SeedGel is thus potentially a generic method for a wide range of colloidal systems.</jats:p

Photodegradation of polymer-CNT nanocomposites: effect of CNT loading and CNT release characteristics

Single particle ICP-MS is used to characterize the evolving magnitude, rate, and form of CNT release from photodegrading polymer nanocomposites.</p

Quantification of carbon nanotubes in polymer composites

2-Step extraction/detection method was developed for quantification of carbonaceous nanomaterials (CNMs) in polymer composites using Programmed Thermal Analysis (PTA).</p