Abstract
Diffusion dynamics of nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposites is investigated by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. We report a strong polymer chain length dependent non-Gaussian diffusion of nanoparticles (NPs) in entangled polymer melt. By analyzing the NP motion and the polymer relaxation at different length and time scales, we find that the non-Gaussian diffusion of NPs originates from a dynamic coupling at a specific length scale with the melt polymer chain segments that possess similar size with NP. Our results provide a microscopic understanding of the complex particle environment interactions and a detailed mechanism for nanoparticle diffusion in entangled polymer melt.
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