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Main Authors: Svaneborg, Carsten, Everaers, Ralf
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00961
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author Svaneborg, Carsten
Everaers, Ralf
author_facet Svaneborg, Carsten
Everaers, Ralf
contents We estimate the plateau moduli of highly entangled end-pinned bead-spring polymer melts with Z = 100 and Z = 200 from the time-dependent elastic response to a step strain, which we first extrapolate to infinite time and then interpolate to zero strain. We present data for systems deformed in the melt state as well as for systems deformed at the primitive path level following the recent iPPA protocol. We observe excellent agreement between the plateau moduli obtained via the two deformation protocols and good agreement with the available experimental data for commodity polymer melts using a common mapping on the Kuhn scale.
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spellingShingle Plateau moduli of Kremer-Grest models for commodity polymer melts
Svaneborg, Carsten
Everaers, Ralf
Soft Condensed Matter
We estimate the plateau moduli of highly entangled end-pinned bead-spring polymer melts with Z = 100 and Z = 200 from the time-dependent elastic response to a step strain, which we first extrapolate to infinite time and then interpolate to zero strain. We present data for systems deformed in the melt state as well as for systems deformed at the primitive path level following the recent iPPA protocol. We observe excellent agreement between the plateau moduli obtained via the two deformation protocols and good agreement with the available experimental data for commodity polymer melts using a common mapping on the Kuhn scale.
title Plateau moduli of Kremer-Grest models for commodity polymer melts
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00961