Viscometric Functions and Rheo-optical Properties of Dilute Polymer Solutions: Comparison of FENE-Fraenkel Dumbbells with Rodlike Models

I. Pincus, A. Rodger, J. Ravi Prakash

Rigid macromolecules or polymer chains with persistence length on the order of the contour length (or greater) have traditionally been modelled as rods or very stiff springs. The F…