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Dipolar Self-Interactions Drive Polymer Chain Collapse
Pratik Khandagale, Gal deBotton, Timothy Breitzman +2
We report that a dielectric polymer chain, constrained at both ends, sharply collapses when exposed to a high electric field. The chain collapse is driven by nonlocal dipolar inter…
Statistical Field Theory of Polarizable Polymer Chains with Nonlocal Dipolar Interactions
Pratik Khandagale, Carlos Garcia-Cervera, Gal deBotton +3
The electromechanical response of polymeric soft matter to applied electric fields is of fundamental scientific interest as well as relevant to technologies for sensing and actuati…
Statistical field theory for nonlinear elasticity of polymer networks with excluded volume interactions
Pratik Khandagale, Timothy Breitzman, Carmel Majidi +1
Polymer networks formed by cross linking flexible polymer chains are ubiquitous in many natural and synthetic soft-matter systems. Current micromechanics models generally do not ac…