Entangled-to-packed crossover in nonlinear extensional rheology of entangled polymers
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| author | Wang, Yin Wu, Lin-Feng Shao, Yi-Bo Wang, Zhe |
| author_facet | Wang, Yin Wu, Lin-Feng Shao, Yi-Bo Wang, Zhe |
| contents | Significant challenges exist in the nonlinear extensional rheology of entangled polymers. With simulations, we show that the key to understanding this problem is to recognize the existence and importance of a strain-induced crossover from the entangled state to a packed state. This crossover, following the saturation of primitive chain stretch, takes place with massive release of entanglements via convective flow and progressive chain alignment. After the crossover, the disentangled, fully-aligned chain segments pack similarly to the random packing of rods. Meanwhile, the system enters the steady state. In this state, the tube model, built on the concept of entanglement, fails, while the stress can be quantitatively calculated by combining the intra-chain conformational contribution and a frictional contribution from the inter-chain separation along flow. |
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| spellingShingle | Entangled-to-packed crossover in nonlinear extensional rheology of entangled polymers Wang, Yin Wu, Lin-Feng Shao, Yi-Bo Wang, Zhe Soft Condensed Matter Significant challenges exist in the nonlinear extensional rheology of entangled polymers. With simulations, we show that the key to understanding this problem is to recognize the existence and importance of a strain-induced crossover from the entangled state to a packed state. This crossover, following the saturation of primitive chain stretch, takes place with massive release of entanglements via convective flow and progressive chain alignment. After the crossover, the disentangled, fully-aligned chain segments pack similarly to the random packing of rods. Meanwhile, the system enters the steady state. In this state, the tube model, built on the concept of entanglement, fails, while the stress can be quantitatively calculated by combining the intra-chain conformational contribution and a frictional contribution from the inter-chain separation along flow. |
| title | Entangled-to-packed crossover in nonlinear extensional rheology of entangled polymers |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22200 |