Analytic Solution for the Linear Rheology of Living Polymers

Autor:	Chen, Vickie, Drucker, Charles T., Love, Claire, Peterson, Jonathon, Peterson, Joseph
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	It is often said that well-entangled and fast-breaking living polymers (such as wormlike micelles) exhibit a single relaxation time in their reptation dynamics, but the full story is somewhat more complicated. Understanding departures from single-Maxwell behavior is crucial for fitting and interpreting experimental data, but in some limiting cases numerical methods of solving living polymer models can struggle to produce reliable predictions/interpretations. In this work, we develop an analytic solution for the shuffling model of living polymers. The analytic solution is a converging infinite series, and it converges fastest in the fast-breaking limit where other methods can struggle. Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07213 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv