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20162018
most citedPolymer brush collapse under shear flow

29 citations · 45 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

physics.comp-ph2018

Giant fluctuations in sheared viscoelastic fluids emerging in a mesoscale simulation

Airidas Korolkovas

Shear flow is known to induce huge density fluctuations in otherwise clear and uniform polymer solutions. This effect is rooted in the elasticity of the entangled polymer network,…

cond-mat.soft2018

The viscoelastic signature underpinning polymer deformation under shear flow

Airidas Korolkovas, Sylvain Prévost, Maciej Kawecki +4

Entangled polymers are deformed by a strong shear flow. The shape of the polymer, called the form factor, is measured by small angle neutron scattering. However, the real-space mol…

physics.comp-ph2018

5D Entanglement in Star Polymer Dynamics

Airidas Korolkovas

Star polymers are within the most topologically entangled macromolecules. For a star to move the current theory is that one arm must retract to the branch point. The probability of…

physics.comp-ph2018

Shear deformation of low-density polymer brushes in a good solvent

Airidas Korolkovas, Philipp Gutfreund, Alexis Chennevière +4

Self-consistent field approach is used to model a single end-tethered polymer chain on a substrate subject to various forces in three dimensions. Starting from a continuous Gaussia…

physics.comp-ph2017

Dynamical structure of entangled polymers simulated under shear flow

Airidas Korolkovas, Philipp Gutfreund, Max Wolff

The non-linear response of entangled polymers to shear flow is complicated. Its current understanding is framed mainly as a rheological description in terms of the complex viscosit…

cond-mat.soft2017★ 29 cited

Polymer brush collapse under shear flow

Airidas Korolkovas, Cesar Rodriguez-Emmenegger, Andres de los Santos Pereira +6

Shear responsive surfaces offer potential advances in a number of applications. Surface functionalisation using polymer brushes is one route to such properties, particularly in the…