Time-Dependent Orientation Coupling in Equilibrium Polymer Melts

Time-dependent orientation coupling in equilibrium polymer melts.

The motion in concentrated polymer systems is described by either the Rouse or the reptation model, which both assume that the relaxation of each polymer chain is independent of the surrounding chains. This, however, is in contradiction with several experiments. In this Letter, we propose a universal description of orientation coupling in polymer melts in terms of the time-dependent coupling pa...

Orientation Correlation in Simplified Models of Polymer Melts

We investigate mutual local chain order in systems of fully flexible polymer melts in a simple generic bead-spring model. The excluded-volume interaction together with the connectivity leads to local ordering effects which are independent of chain length between 25 and 700 monomers, i.e. in the Rouse as well as in the reptation regime. These ordering phenomena extend to a distance of about 3 to...

Static and dynamic properties of large polymer melts in equilibrium.

We present a detailed study of the static and dynamic behaviors of long semiflexible polymer chains in a melt. Starting from previously obtained fully equilibrated high molecular weight polymer melts [G. Zhang et al., ACS Macro Lett. 3, 198 (2014)], we investigate their static and dynamic scaling behaviors as predicted by theory. We find that for semiflexible chains in a melt, results of the me...

Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Melts from Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Introduction. The dynamics of polymer chains are now generally very well understood in the pioneering frameworks of the Rouse model for short chains, and the reptation model for longer chains.1-5 While these theories yield well-known expressions for the variation of the diffusivity D and viscosity η with the chain length N, an open question is the chain length at which one crosses over from Rou...

Nanoparticle Dynamics in Polymer Melts