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Active Learning for Predicting Polymer/Plasticizer Phase Behaviour
Lois Smith, Jessica Steele, Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh +1
Plasticisers (PLs) are small additives commonly incorporated into polymer composites to enhance processability and improve mechanical properties. Their effectiveness depends heavil…
Cavity Formation in Silica-Filled Rubber Compounds Observed During Deformation by Ultra Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering
Ilya Yakovlev, Michael Sztucki, Frank Fleck +4
When silica-filled rubber compounds are deformed, structural modifications in the material's bulk lead to irreversible damage, the most significant of which is cavitation appearing…
A Framework for a High Throughput Screening Method to Assess Polymer/Plasticizer Miscibility
Lois Smith, H. Ali Karimi-Varzaneh, Sebastian Finger +3
Polymer composite materials require softening to reduce their glass transition temperature and improve processability. To this end, plasticizers, which are small organic molecules,…
Piezo-Electric Shear Rheometry: Further developments in experimental implementation and data extraction
Mathias Mikkelsen, Kira L. Eliasen, Niclas Lindemann +8
The Piezo-electric Shear Gauge (PSG) [Christensen & Olsen, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66, 5019, 1995] is a rheometric technique developed to measure the complex shear modulus of viscous li…
Computational study of the cross-link and the entanglement contributions to the elastic properties of model PDMS networks
Igor A. Gula, Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh, Carsten Svaneborg
We built randomly cross-linked model PDMS networks and used Molecular Dynamics Methods to obtain stress-strain curves. Mooney-Rivlin (MR) analysis was used to estimate the shear mo…
Kremer-Grest models for commodity polymer melts: Linking theory, experiment and simulation at the Kuhn scale
Ralf Everaers, Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh, Nils Hojdis +2
The Kremer-Grest (KG) polymer model is a standard model for studying generic polymer properties in Molecular Dynamics simulations. It owes its popularity to its simplicity and comp…
Multiscale approach to equilibrating model polymer melts
Carsten Svaneborg, Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh, Nils Hojdis +2
We present an effective and simple multiscale method for equilibrating Kremer Grest model polymer melts of varying stiffness. In our approach, we progressively equilibrate the melt…
Kremer-Grest models for universal properties of specific common polymer species
Carsten Svaneborg, Hossein Ali Karimi-Varzaneh, Nils Hojdis +2
The Kremer-Grest (KG) bead-spring model is a near standard in Molecular Dynamic simulations of generic polymer properties. It owes its popularity to its computational efficiency, r…