Sing, Michelle K. and Wang, Zhen-Gang and McKinley, Gareth H. and Olsen, Bradley D. (2015) Celebrating Soft Matter's 10th Anniversary: Chain configuration and rate-dependent mechanical properties in transient networks. Soft Matter, 11 (11). pp. 2085-2096. ISSN 1744-683X. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150410-103544942
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Abstract
Numerical solution of a coupled set of Smoluchowski convection-diffusion equations of associating polymers modelled as finitely extensible dumbbells enables computation of time-dependent end-to-end distributions for bridged, dangling, and looped chains in three dimensions as a function of associating end-group kinetics. Non-monotonic flow curves which can lead to flow instabilities during shear flow result at low equilibrium constant and high association rate from two complementary phenomena: a decrease in the fraction of elastically active chains with increasing shear rate and non-monotonic extension in the population of elastically active chains. Chain tumbling leads to reformation of bridges, resulting in an increased fraction of bridged chains at high Deborah number and significant reduction in the average bridge chain extension. In the start-up of steady shear, force-activated chain dissociation and chain tumbling cause both stress overshoot and stress ringing behaviour prior to reaching steady state stress values. During stress relaxation following steady shear, chain kinetics and extension mediate both the number of relaxations and the length of time required for system relaxation. While at low association rate relaxation is limited by the relaxation of dangling chains and the rate of dangling chain formation, at high association rate coupling of dangling and bridged chains leads to simultaneous relaxation of all chains due to a dynamic equilibrium between dangling and bridged states.
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Additional Information: | © 2015 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Received 30th September 2014, Accepted 3rd December 2014, First published online 21 Jan 2015. This research was supported by the U. S. Army Research Office through the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies. M.K.S. was supported by the Department of Defense (DoD) through the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Program. | ||||||||||||
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