Diblock copolymer architecture and complex viscosity

Autor: Chaimongkol Saengow, Jourdain H. Piette, M. A. Kanso, A. Jeffrey Giacomin
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: International Journal of Modern Physics B. 34:2040110
ISSN: 1793-6578
0217-9792
DOI: 10.1142/s0217979220401104
Popis: General rigid bead-rod theory [O. Hassager, J. Chem. Phys. 60, 4001 (1974)] explains polymer viscoelasticity from macromolecular orientation. By means of general rigid bead-rod theory, we relate the complex viscosity of polymeric liquids to the architecture of axisymmetric macromolecules. In this paper, we explore the complex viscosities of different axisymmetric diblock copolymer configurations. When nondimensionalized with the zero-shear viscosity, the diblock copolymer complex viscosity depends on the dimensionless frequency and the sole dimensionless architectural parameter, the macromolecular lopsidedness. In this paper, through this way, we thus compare the dimensionless relaxation time of different diblock macromolecular chains. We explore the effects of linear density, macromolecular length, and bead number ratio.
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