Rheology and Microscopic Topology of Entangled Polymeric Liquids

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5659, 2004, Pages 823-826

  Everaers, Ralf ^a,b   Sukumaran, Sathish K ^a   Grest, Gary S ^c   Svaneborg, Carsten ^a   Sivasubramanian, Arvind ^a   Kremer, Kurt ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RHEOLOGY; TOPOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY;

POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER DYNAMICS;

POLYMERS;

POLYMER;

LIQUID;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; FLOW KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARAMETER; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0842309873     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091215     Document Type: Article

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42. R. E. gratefully acknowledges financial support from an Emmy-Noether-Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the hospitality of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. S.K.S. is grateful to V. Lobaskin for help with some simulation data. A.S. was supported through the International Max Planck Research School for Polymer Materials Science, Mainz. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DEAC04-94AL85000.