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Mechanical Behavior of PMMA/SiO2 Multilayer Nanocomposites: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulation

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Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/nano-silica (nano-SiO2) nanocom-posite film with 256 layers containing different amounts of nano-SiO2 was manufactured by a new type of micro-nano multilayer co-extrusion technology. The structure, morphology and mechanical properties of PMMA/nano-SiO2 nanocomposite films were investigated through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and tensile test Besides, molecular dynamics simulation ^J^ was adopted to study the dispersion and content effect on mechanical properties of PMMA/nano-SiO2 nanocomposite film. It is demonstrated that the tensile strength and the elongation at break of the composites improved with increasing nano-SiO2 content from 0 to 5 wt%, which was in good agreement with the Molecular Dynamics simulation. And the nanofiller dispersion in the multilayer nanocomposite film was better than that in the single-layer film with equivalent thickness under the effect of torsion lamination. Overall, the best performance was found for the nanocomposites of PMMA with nano-SiO2 content of 3.5 wt%.

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    Xiangshi Zhen, Liyan Zhang, Meinong Shi, Li Li, Lisheng Cheng, Zhiwei Jiao, Weimin Yang & Yumei Ding

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Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2016YFB0302000), Guangdong Provincial Plan Projects of Science and Technology (Grant No. 2016B090915001).

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Zhen, X., Zhang, L., Shi, M. et al. Mechanical Behavior of PMMA/SiO2 Multilayer Nanocomposites: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Macromol. Res. 28, 266–274 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13233-020-8035-y

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