Rheological evidence for a dynamical crossover in polymer melts via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics
Rheological evidence for a dynamical crossover in polymer melts via nonequilibrium molecular dynamics
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.85.1128
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发表时间:
2000-07-31
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Hess, S
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作者:
Kröger, M;Hess, S
A certain "critical" molecular weight controls rheological properties of the multibead finitely extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE) chain model polymer melt, The rheological crossover manifests itself in a change of power law behavior for the viscous properties at a critical number of beads per chain N-c = 100 +/- 10. This finding confirms a newly proposed relationship between dimensionless critical weight, characteristic length, and flexibility which we obtain as a side result. Results further suggest that the entanglement molecular weight N-e for the flexible FENE chain model could he comparable in size or even larger than its critical molecular weight N-c.