Effect of nitrogen doping on medium-amplitude oscillatory shear (MAOS) response of nanotube/polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposites: Molecular simulations, rheology, and broadband electrical conductivity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study sheds light on the effect of nitrogen (N) doping of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on medium-amplitude oscillatory shear (MAOS) response of CNT/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanocomposites within a rheologically percolated concentration regime. Custom-synthesized CNTs without and with nitrogen heteroatom (at a nitrogen atomic percent of 3.85 at. %) were incorporated into a PVDF matrix using a miniature melt-mixer at different concentrations. In both cases, as confirmed by TEM investigations, a nanoscopic state of dispersion in the PVDF matrix was achievable using the applied melt mixing procedure. Our results indicated that N-doped nanocomposites, well below their electrical percolation, form a hybrid, load-bearing network structure where network interconnectivity is driven by N-doped CNT domains and near-surface regions of the PVDF phase. This hybrid network formation behavior combined with N-doped CNTs inferior aspect ratio and their higher susceptibility to breakage and length loss during the melt mixing process have led to delayed electrical percolation. In contrast, localized clustering and contact aggregation in a submicrometer scale was the dominant mode of network formation in the undoped CNT/PVDF nanocomposites. These microstructural inferences were further validated in the frame of molecular simulations and optical microscopy investigations.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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