Enhancing nanoscale viscoelasticity characterization in bimodal atomic force microscopy

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作者
Adam, Casey Erin [1 ]
Piacenti, Alba Rosa [1 ]
Waters, Sarah L. [2 ]
Contera, Sonia [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
[2] Univ Oxford, Math Inst, Wolfson Ctr Math Biol, Oxford OX2 6GG, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES; RELAXATION SPECTRUM; MODULUS; AFM;
D O I
10.1039/d4sm00671b
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Polymeric, soft, and biological materials exhibit viscoelasticity, which is a time dependent mechanical response to deformation. Material viscoelasticity emerges from the movement of a material's constituent molecules at the nano- and microscale in response to applied deformation. Therefore, viscoelastic properties depend on the speed at which a material is deformed. Recent technological advances, especially in atomic force microscopy (AFM), have provided tools to measure and map material viscoelasticity with nanoscale resolution. However, to obtain additional information about the viscoelastic behavior of a material from such measurements, theoretical grounding during data analysis is required. For example, commercially available bimodal AFM imaging maps two different viscoelastic properties of a sample, the storage modulus, E ', and loss tangent, tan delta, with each property being measured by a different resonance frequency of the AFM cantilever. While such techniques provide high resolution maps of E ' and tan delta, the different measurement frequencies make it difficult to calculate key viscoelastic properties of the sample such as: the model of viscoelasticity that describes the sample, the loss modulus, E '', at either frequency, elasticity E, viscosity eta, and characteristic response times tau. To overcome this difficulty, we present a new data analysis procedure derived from linear viscoelasticity theory. This procedure is applied and validated by performing amplitude modulation-frequency modulation (AM-FM) AFM, a commercially available bimodal imaging technique, on a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) with known mechanical behavior. The new analysis procedure correctly identified the type of viscoelasticity exhibited by the SBR and accurately calculated SBR E, eta, and tau, providing a useful means of enhancing the amount of information gained about a sample's nanoscale viscoelastic properties from bimodal AFM measurements. Additionally, being derived from fundamental models of linear viscoelasticity, the procedure can be employed for any technique where different viscoelastic properties are measured at different and discrete frequencies with applied deformations in the linear viscoelastic regime of a sample. This article describes and validates an analysis procedure that enhances nanoscale viscoelasticity characterization in bimodal AFM by determining how to model sample viscoelasticity then calculating additional sample properties.
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页码:7457 / 7470
页数:14
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