Shear-Thinning in Oligomer Melts—Molecular Origins and Applications

Shear-Thinning in Oligomer Melts—Molecular Origins and Applications

We investigate the molecular origin of shear-thinning in melts of flexible, semiflexible and rigid oligomers with coarse-grained simulations of a sheared melt. Entanglements, alignment, stretching and tumbling modes or suppression of the latter all contribute to understanding how macroscopic flow pr...

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Main Authors: Ranajay Datta, Leonid Yelash, Friederike Schmid, Florian Kummer, Martin Oberlack, Mária Lukáčová-Medvid’ová, Peter Virnau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Polymers
Subjects:
shear flow
shear-thinning
semiflexible polymers
oligomers
heterogeneous multiscale methods
molecular dynamics
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/13/16/2806

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