Entropy-driven phase behavior of associative polymer networks

Polymer chains decorated with a fraction of monomers capable of forming reversible bonds form transient polymer networks that are important in soft and biological systems. If chains are flexible and the attractive monomers are all of the same species, the network formation occurs continuously as den...

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Main Author: Lorenzo Rovigatti, Francesco Sciortino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2023-10-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.4.163