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Onset of criticality in hyper-auxetic polymer networks
Andrea Ninarello, José Ruiz-Franco, Emanuela Zaccarelli
Against common sense, auxetic materials expand or contract perpendicularly when stretched or compressed, respectively, by uniaxial strain, being characterized by a negative Poisson…
Dynamical properties of different models of elastic polymer rings: confirming the link between deformation and fragility
Nicoletta Gnan, Fabrizio Camerin, Giovanni Del Monte +2
We report extensive numerical simulations of different models of 2D polymer rings with internal elasticity. We monitor the dynamical behavior of the rings as a function of the pack…
Two-step deswelling in the Volume Phase Transition of thermoresponsive microgels
Giovanni Del Monte, Domenico Truzzolillo, Fabrizio Camerin +7
Thermoresponsive microgels are one of the most investigated class of soft colloids, thanks to their ability to undergo a Volume Phase Transition (VPT) close to ambient temperature.…
Charge affinity and solvent effects in numerical simulations of ionic microgels
G. Del Monte, F. Camerin, A. Ninarello +3
Ionic microgel particles are intriguing systems in which the properties of thermo-responsive polymeric colloids are enriched by the presence of charged groups. In order to rational…