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Theoretical rheo-physics of silk: Intermolecular associations reduce the critical specific work for flow-induced crystallisation
Charley Schaefer, Tom C. B. McLeish
Silk is a semi-dilute solution of randomly coiled associating polypeptide chains that crystallise following the stretch-induced disruption, in the strong extensional flow of extrus…
Power-Law Stretching of Associating Polymers in Steady-State Extensional Flow
Charley Schaefer, Tom C. B. McLeish
We present a tube model for the Brownian dynamics of associating polymers in extensional flow. In linear response, the model confirms the analytical predictions for the sticky diff…
Chain-Stretch Relaxation from Low Frequency Fourier Transform Rheology
Carl D. Reynolds, David M. Hoyle, Richard L. Thompson +1
Medium or large amplitude oscillatory shear (M/LAOS) is sensitive to polymer chain structure, yet poses unsolved challenges for 'a priori' structural characterisation. In this lett…
Morphology Formation in Binary Mixtures upon Gradual Destabilisation
Charley Schaefer, Stefan Paquay, Tom C. B. McLeish
Spontaneous liquid-liquid phase separation is commonly understood in terms of phenomenological mean-field theories. These theories correctly predict the structural features of the…
Controlling the self-assembly of binary copolymer mixtures in solution through molecular architecture
M. J. Greenall, P. Schuetz, S. Furzeland +4
We present a combined experimental and theoretical study on the role of copolymer architecture in the self-assembly of binary PEO-PCL mixtures in water-THF, and show that altering…
Dynamic scaling in entangled mean-field gelation polymers
Chinmay Das, Daniel J. Read, Mark A. Kelmanson +1
We present a simple reaction kinetics model to describe the polymer synthesis used by Lusignan et al. (PRE, 60, 5657, 1999) to produce randomly branched polymers in the vulcanizati…