Nanoscale additives

Although the scope of this chapter is limited to catalyst nanoencapsulation for the purpose of process intensification, we take a broad view of the definition of nanoencapsulation. The capsule or catalyst, or both, may be on the nanoscale. Additionally, the various methods of nanoencapsulation may be of the order of up to a few microns. 

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The presence of additives, fillers, unreacted residual monomers and/or impurities, whether deliberately included in the formulation of a resin or left over as undesirable by-products of synthesis. For example, plasticizers of low molecular weight generally decrease Tg [18,30,67,68], as will be discussed further in Section 6.D. On the other hand, under some conditions, Tg may increase when rigid nanoscale additives are incorporated [65]. 

In recent years, the use of nanoscale additives for plastics has greatly increased. In some cases, these are materials such as pigments (e.g., titanium dioxide), in which the particle size has been reduced to the level that at least one dimension is under 100 microns. This results in greatly increased surface area (at the same mass loading), which can significantly change the effects of the additives. In other cases, new materials are being added to plastics. 

Layered aluminosilicates and their organic alterations are an essential part of industrial materials and are increasingly employed as absorbents to purify and decolorize liquids, as fillers in paper and rubber materials, as rheology modifiers in paints, greases, and drilling muds, and as a base in cosmetics and medicines. Most recently, they have been a successful for their performance-enhancing properties when used as a nanoscale additive in plastics to generate polymer nanocomposites [26]. 

Incorporation of Ionic Charges. The effects of ionic interactions were discussed briefly in the paragraph titled Additives, Fillers, Unreacted Residual Monomers and/or Impurities, in the narrow context of the possible effects of the incorporation of rigid nanoscale additives on the value of Tg. The effects of incorporating ionic charges on polymer chains will now be discussed in a broader context. An ionic polymer (sometimes referred to as an ionomer ) contains both... 

Hyperbranched Polymers (HBP) Emerging Nanoscale Additives and Opportunities for PLA. 

There is currently considerable interest in processing polymeric composite materials filled with nanosized rigid particles. This class of material called "nanocomposites" describes two-phase materials where one of the phases has at least one dimension lower than 100 nm [13]. Because the building blocks of nanocomposites are of nanoscale, they have an enormous interface area. Due to this there are a lot of interfaces between two intermixed phases compared to usual microcomposites. In addition to this, the mean distance between the particles is also smaller due to their small size which favors filler-filler interactions [14]. Nanomaterials not only include metallic, bimetallic and metal oxide but also polymeric nanoparticles as well as advanced materials like carbon nanotubes and dendrimers. However considering environmetal hazards, research has been focused on various means which form the basis of green nanotechnology. 

In addition to the environmentally benign attributes and the easily tunable solvent properties, other important characteristics such as low interfacial tension, excellent wetting behavior, and high diffusion coefficients also make SCCO2 a superior medium for the synthesis of nanoscale materials [2]. Previous works on w/c RMs showed that conventional hydrocarbon surfactants such as AOT do not form RMs in scCOi [3] AOT is completely insoluble in CO2 due to the poor miscibility of the alkyl chains with CO2, restricting the utilization of this medium. Recently, we had demonstrated that the commonly used surfactant,... 

The formation of nanopattemed functional surfaces is a recent topic in nanotechnology. As is widely known, diblock copolymers, which consist of two different types of polymer chains cormected by a chemical bond, have a wide variety of microphase separation structures, such as spheres, cylinders, and lamellae, on the nanoscale, and are expected to be new functional materials with nanostructures. Further modification of the nanostructures is also useful for obtaining new functional materials. In addition, utilization of nanopartides of an organic dye is also a topic of interest in nanotechnology. 

The current example is a significant addition to the attempts to control bioorganic assembly at the nanoscale and should serve as an important step toward the... 

In addition to the described above methods, there are computational QM-MM (quantum mechanics-classic mechanics) methods in progress of development. They allow prediction and understanding of solvatochromism and fluorescence characteristics of dyes that are situated in various molecular structures changing electrical properties on nanoscale. Their electronic transitions and according microscopic structures are calculated using QM coupled to the point charges with Coulombic potentials. It is very important that in typical QM-MM simulations, no dielectric constant is involved Orientational dielectric effects come naturally from reorientation and translation of the elements of the system on the pathway of attaining the equilibrium. Dynamics of such complex systems as proteins embedded in natural environment may be revealed with femtosecond time resolution. In more detail, this topic is analyzed in this volume [76]. 

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