Thermo- and pH-sensitive Hydrogels with Incorporated Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) attract great attention due to the unique combination of physical, chemical, electrical and mechanical properties which have high potential for design of nanocomposite materials with customized properties (electromagnetic shielding, high strength and electroconductivity materials), actua-tors (e.g. artificial muscles and tissues), sensors, components of microfluidic devices, etc. Usage of CNT in practical applications is limited by their lower solubility in most solvents. Remaining primary agglomer-ates of NT not only increase the amount of filler needed for percolation, but also act as imperfections under mechanical stress. Therefore, in this investigation, the influence of surfactant type and its concentration, along with sonication treating time on sedimentation behavior of multi-walled carbon nanotubes was in-vestigated. To a greater extent, the influence of monomer composition, surface-active substances, and car-bon nanotubes on gelation and physicochemical properties of thermo- and pH-sensitive hydrogels and hy-drogel nanocomposites based on N-isopropylacrylamide with carbon nanotubes were investigated too. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3559

Interparticle interaction and structure of deposits for competitive model in (2+1)- dimensions

A competitive (2+1)-dimensional model of deposit formation, based on the combination of random sequential absorption deposition (RSAD), ballistic deposition (BD) and random deposition (RD) models, is proposed. This model was named as RSAD$_{1-s}$(RD$_f$BD$_{1-f}$)$_s$. It allows to consider different cases of interparticle interactions from complete repulsion between near-neighbors in the RSAD model ($s=0$) to sticking interactions in the BD model ($s=1, f=0$) or absence of interactions in the RD model ($s=1$, $f=0$). The ideal checkerboard ordered structure was observed for the pure RSAD model ($s=0$) in the limit of $h \to \infty$. Defects in the ordered structure were observed at small $h$. The density of deposit $p$ versus system size $L$ dependencies were investigated and the scaling parameters and values of $p_\infty=p(L=\infty)$ were determined. Dependencies of $p$ versus parameters of the competitive model $s$ and $f$ were studied. We observed the anomalous behaviour of the eposit density $p_\infty$ with change of the inter-particle repulsion, which goes through minimum on change of the parameter $s$. For pure RSAD model, the concentration of defects decreases with $h$ increase in accordance with the critical law $\rho\propto h^{-\chi_{RSAD}}$, where $\chi_{RSAD} \approx 0.119 \pm 0.04$.Comment: 10 pages,4 figures, Latex, uses iopart.cl