Large scale structure size determination in graphene oxide nanocomposites

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Nanocomposites are prevalent in many industrial applications. The use of graphene in inexpensive materials such as polymers can have significant modifications to the polymer properties. Key to making these materials is controlling the distribution of the material and this can change with concentration and fabrication methods. In this work we propose to measure the distribution of graphene oxide sheets in two different polymers. The use of the newly commissioned spin-echo small angle neutron scattering (SESANS) technique will be employed to measure the graphene oxide sheet size and distribution. This will be over the whole sample unlike microscopy which is both challenging and only sees a small fraction of the aggregates and may not be representative of the average and secondly this allows us to access buried structures which cannot be seen by microscopy.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.95665417
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/95665417
Provenance
Creator Dr Adam Washington; Dr Mike Weir; Dr Steven Parnell
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-06-17T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-20T23:00:00Z