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polymer晶体成核势垒上的纠缠

Entanglement on nucleation barrier of polymer crystal

Fan Peng, Cui Nie, Tingyu Xu, Wei Chen, Wancheng Yu, Junfang Sheng, Liangbin Li

摘要:

我们提出了一种理论方法来定量地解释缠结在聚合物熔体成核中的作用,这是聚合物区别于小分子的独特特征。通过分子动力学模拟,得到了不同缠结密度下聚合物体系的成核势垒,与经典成核理论(CNT)的预测结果相反.为了弥补碳纳米管在聚合物结晶中的不足,我们引入了缠结自由能来反映缠结在聚合物成核中的作用。具体而言,聚合物成核不仅涉及如在CNT中所考虑的核内部和表面上的单体的自由能,而且还影响核周围的缠结网络。我们的理论方法提供了一个合理的解释未解决的成核现象的聚合物在模拟和实验。

英文摘要:

We propose a theoretical approach to quantitatively account for the role of entanglement in the nucleation of polymer melts, which is the unique feature of polymer differentiated from small molecules. By performing molecular dynamics simulations, we obtain the nucleation barriers of polymer systems with different entanglement densities, which exhibits an opposite trend compared to the prediction of the classic nucleation theory (CNT). To amend the deficiency of the CNT in polymer crystallization, we introduce the entanglement free energy to reflect the role of entanglement in polymer nucleation. Specifically, the polymer nucleation not only involves free energies of monomers inside and on the surface of a nucleus as considered in the CNT, but also affects the entanglement network around the nucleus. Our theoretical approach provides a reasonable interpretation for the unsolved nucleation phenomena of polymers in simulations and experiments.

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