DYNAMICS OF REVERSIBLY CROSS-LINKED CHAINS
DYNAMICS OF REVERSIBLY CROSS-LINKED CHAINS
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DOI:
10.1021/ma00194a076
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发表时间:
1989-04-01
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
BAXANDALL, LG
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作者:
BAXANDALL, LG
The dynamicsand viscoelastic response of a polymer chain bound by reversible cross-links to a (phantom) network are considered in a mean-field picture. A reversible cross-link is presumed to act like a classical cross-link in binding a segment of polymerto a fixed point in space. However, unlike the permanent cross-link which always remains intact, the reversible cross-link may spontaneously break away and then reattach to allow the bound segment and hence the polymer to move. The motion of such a bound segment is taken to be entropically controlled, ie, the probability distribution for the position of the rebound segment is that appropriate to (local) equilibrium. It is shown how chains with such dynamical cross-links exhibit (self-) diffusionand a spectrum of relaxation processes. The dependence of D, the diffusion constant, on the number of reversible cross-links, N, and their distribution along the chain is given and the relaxation spectra of the dumbbell (N= 2) and the trumbbell (N= 3) explicitly calculated. The relaxation spectrum of the general linear chain is approximated and the dynamics of a chain with regularly spaced cross-links shown to be essentially Rouse-like.