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Record W2907555252 · doi:10.3390/polym11010076

Evaluating the Effects of Nanosilica on Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Polyvinyl Alcohol/Polyacrylamide Polymer Composites for Artificial Cartilage from an Atomic Level

2019· article· en· W2907555252 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePolymers · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTribology and Wear Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
FundersFundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesChina Scholarship CouncilNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsPolyvinyl alcoholMaterials scienceComposite materialTribologyPolyacrylamidePolymerPolymer chemistry

Abstract

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Due to the superior performances of nanosilica particles, this research has been designed to study their effects on the mechanical and trigological properties of a PVA/PAM polymer composite by a molecular dynamics simulation method. To realize the research objectives mentioned above, the molecular models of amorphous cells and sandwiched friction models for pure polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/polyacrylamide (PAM) (component weight ratio is 1:1) and PVA/PAM/nanosilica (component weight ratio is 5.75:5.75:1) polymer composites were constructed and simulated, respectively. The simulation results of the mechanical properties show increases about 31.6% in the bulk modulus, 53.1% in the shear modulus, and 50.1% in the Young's modulus by incorporating a nanosilica particle into a pure PVA/PAM polymer composite. Meanwhile, the changes in Cauchy pressure, B/G ratio, and Poisson's ratio values indicate that incorporating a nanosilica particle into pure PVA/PAM weakened the ductility of the composite. Incorporating a nanosilica particle into a pure PVA/PAM composite also showed a decrease about 28.2% in the abrasion rates and relative concentration distributions of polymer molecules in the final friction models. Additionally, the binding energy and the pair correlation functions between a nanosilica particle and the polymer chains in a cubic cell demonstrate that incorporating nanosilica into PVA/PAM polymer composites improves the internal binding strength between different components through the forming hydrogen bonds. As a result, the mechanical and tribological properties of PVA/PAM polymer composites can be enhanced by incorporating nanosilica particles.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.481

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it