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20152026
most citedPerspectives on the viscoelasticity and flow behavior of entangled linear and branched polymers

69 citations · 100 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Hydrodynamic cascade drives tumbling in sheared colloidal rod suspensions

Lucas H. P. Cunha, Paul F. Salipante, Peter D. Olmsted +1

Modeling the dynamics of colloidal rods remains a central challenge in soft-matter physics due to the anisotropic and long-ranged nature of their interactions. Hydrodynamic interac…

cond-mat.soft2025

A Smoluchowski equation for a sheared suspension of frictionally interacting rods

Genevieve Quiñones, Peter D. Olmsted

In this work we develop constitutive equations for a dense, sheared suspension of frictionally interacting rods by applying Onsager's variational method as formulated by Doi. We tr…

cond-mat.soft2025

The roles of elasticity and dimension in liquid-gel phase separation

Shichen Wang, Peter D. Olmsted

We compare six elastic models for polymer networks in the context of phase separation within a gel, including a new model that combines the finite extensible Arruda-Boyce model and…

cond-mat.soft2025

Thermodynamics of microphase separation in a swollen, strain-stiffening polymer network

Carla Fernández-Rico, Robert W. Style, Stefanie Heyden +3

Elastic MicroPhase Separation (EMPS) provides a simple route to create soft materials with homogeneous microstructures by leveraging the supersaturation of crosslinked polymer netw…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Elastic turbulence in highly entangled polymers and wormlike micelles

Theo A. Lewy, Suzanne M. Fielding, Peter D. Olmsted +1

We show theoretically that an initially homogeneous planar Couette flow of a concentrated polymeric fluid is linearly unstable to the growth of two-dimensional (2D) perturbations,…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 19 cited

Nucleation of symmetric domains in the coupled leaflets of a bilayer

John J. Williamson, Peter D. Olmsted

We study the kinetics governing the attainment of inter-leaflet domain symmetry in a phase-separating amphiphilic bilayer. "Indirect" inter-leaflet coupling via hydrophobic mismatc…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 69 cited

Perspectives on the viscoelasticity and flow behavior of entangled linear and branched polymers

F. Snijkers, R. Pasquino, P. D. Olmsted +1

We briefly review the recent advances in the rheology of entangled polymers and identify emerging research trends and outstanding challenges, especially with respect to branched po…

cond-mat.soft2015★ 11 cited

Kinetics of symmetry and asymmetry in a phase-separating bilayer membrane

John J. Williamson, Peter D. Olmsted

We simulate a phase-separating a bilayer in which the leaflets experience a direct coupling favouring local compositional symmetry ("registered" bilayer phases), and an indirect co…