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无缠结和中等缠结链的双分散Polymer熔体的动力学和应力松弛

Dynamics and Stress Relaxation of Bidisperse Polymer Melts with Unentangled and Moderately Entangled Chains

Oluseye Adeyemi, Shiping Zhu, Li Xi

摘要:

多分散性在工业生产的聚合物中是不可避免的。然而,已建立的聚合物动力学和流变学理论大多建立在单分散线性聚合物上。多分散聚合物的动力学还有待充分探索--特别是不同长度的链如何影响混合物中彼此的动力学。本研究利用分子动力学和珠-弹簧链模型探讨了双分散聚合物熔体的动力学行为。研究了中等缠结长链物种和未缠结或轻微缠结短链物种之间的二元混合物。我们发现,添加短链可以显着加快长链的动力学大大减少其纠缠的程度。同时,虽然长链的引入也阻碍了短链的运动,但它并没有定性地改变它们的动力学性质--即使在包含纠缠链的矩阵中,未纠缠的短链仍然遵循经典的劳斯动力学。详细的Rouse模式分析被用来揭示纠缠在不同尺度的链段的影响。应力松弛后的步骤剪切应变也进行了研究和半经验混合规则,预测的线性粘弹性的多分散聚合物的基础上,单分散系统进行了评估与模拟结果。

英文摘要:

Polydispersity is inevitable in industrially produced polymers. Established theories of polymer dynamics and rheology, however, were mostly built on monodisperse linear polymers. Dynamics of polydisperse polymers is yet to be fully explored -- especially how chains of different lengths affect the dynamics of one another in a mixture. This study explored the dynamics of bidisperse polymer melts using molecular dynamics and a bead-spring chain model. Binary mixtures between a moderately entangled long-chain species and an unentangled or marginally entangled short-chain species were investigated. We found that adding short chains can significantly accelerate the dynamics of the long chains by substantially lessening their extent of entanglement. Meanwhile, although introducing long chains also hinders the motion of the short chains, it does not qualitatively alter the nature of their dynamics -- unentangled short chains still follow classical Rouse dynamics even in a matrix containing entangled chains. Detailed Rouse mode analysis was used to reveal the effects of entanglement at chain segments of different scales. Stress relaxation following a step shear strain was also studied and semi-empirical mixing rules that predict the linear viscoelasticity of polydisperse polymers based on that of monodisperse systems were evaluated with simulation results.

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