Giant Nonmonotonic Stretching Response of a Self-Associating Polymer in Shear Flow

Self-associating polymers are ubiquitous in synthetic and biological systems. Here, we use a combination of simulation and theory to show that these polymers exhibit a counterintuitive strong nonmonotonic stretching response in shear flow. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this behavior can be tuned...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexander-Katz, Alfredo, Sing, Charles E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69066
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5554-1283