Scaling Laws for the Conformation and Viscosity of Ring Polymers in the Crossover Region around Me from Detailed Molecular Dynamics Simulations
| Autor: | Vlasis G. Mavrantzas, Dimitrios G. Tsalikis, Panagiotis V. Alatas, Loukas D. Peristeras |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
chemistry.chemical_classification
Materials science Polymers and Plastics Organic Chemistry Dispersity Thermodynamics Non-equilibrium thermodynamics 02 engineering and technology Polymer 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Ring (chemistry) 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Physics::Fluid Dynamics Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter Inorganic Chemistry Molecular dynamics Reptation Viscosity chemistry Materials Chemistry 0210 nano-technology Shear flow |
| Zdroj: | ACS Macro Letters. 7:916-920 |
| ISSN: | 2161-1653 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00437 |
| Popis: | We present results from detailed, atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of pure, strictly monodisperse linear and ring poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) melts under equilibrium and nonequilibrium (shear flow) conditions. The systems examined span the regime of molecular weights (Mw) from sub-Rouse (Mw < Me) to reptation (Mw ∼ 10 Me), where Me denotes the characteristic entanglement molecular weight of linear PEO. For both PEO architectures (ring and linear), the predicted chain center-of-mass self-diffusion coefficients DG as a function of PEO Mw are in remarkable agreement with experimental data. From the flow simulations under shear, we have extracted and analyzed the zero-shear viscosity of ring and linear PEO melts as a function of Mw. |
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