Breakdown of the continuum stokes-einstein relation for nanoparticle diffusion.
Cadmium selenide nanoparticles are found to diffuse approximately 200 times faster in a polymeric liquid than predicted by the Stokes-Einstein relation. This remarkable behavior is hypothesized to be due to the nanoparticles being smaller than the entanglement mesh to create a frictional drag that does not follow continuum expectations, in line with a theoretical calculation presented before. This is one of the first demonstrations of X-ray photo correlation spectroscopy applied to polymeric liquids, which we use to explain the simultaneous 60% viscosity reduction of the mixture through a proposed constraint release mechanism.
Tuteja
Anish
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Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
Mackay
Michael E
ME
Narayanan
Suresh
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Asokan
Subashini
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Wong
Michael S
MS