| Autor: |
Micheletti C; Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy., Chubak I; Sorbonne Université CNRS, Physico-Chimie des électrolytes et Nanosystèmes Interfaciaux, F-75005 Paris, France., Orlandini E; Università degli studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica 'G. Galilei', Via Marzolo 8, I-35100 Padova, Italy., Smrek J; Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
ACS macro letters [ACS Macro Lett] 2024 Jan 10, pp. 124-129. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 10. |
| DOI: |
10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00567 |
| Abstrakt: |
Connecting the viscoelastic behavior of stressed ring melts to the various forms of entanglement that can emerge in such systems is still an open challenge. Here, we consider active ring melts, where stress is generated internally, and introduce a topology-based method to detect and track consequential forms of ring entanglements, namely, deadlocks. We demonstrate that, as stress accumulates, more and more rings are co-opted in a growing web of deadlocks that entrap many other rings by threading, bringing the system to a standstill. The method ought to help the study of topological aging in more general polymer contexts. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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