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ReviewPolymers2019

Modeling of Entangled Polymer Diffusion in Melts and Nanocomposites: A Review.

Argyrios Karatrantos, Russell J Composto, Karen I Winey, Martin Kröger, Nigel Clarke

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Review in Polymers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Argyrios KaratrantosMaterials Research and Technology, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. argyrioskaratrantos@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3169-6894
Russell J CompostoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. composto@seas.upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5906-2594
Karen I WineyDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. winey@seas.upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5856-3410
Martin KrögerPolymer Physics, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland. mk@mat.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0003-1402-6714
Nigel ClarkeDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK. n.clarke@sheffield.ac.uk.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review concerns modeling studies of the fundamental problem of entangled (reptational) homopolymer diffusion in melts and nanocomposite materials in comparison to experiments. In polymer melts, the developed united atom and multibead spring models predict an exponent of the molecular weight dependence to the polymer diffusion very similar to experiments and the tube reptation model. There are rather unexplored parameters that can influence polymer diffusion such as polymer semiflexibility or polydispersity, leading to a different exponent. Models with soft potentials or slip-springs can estimate accurately the tube model predictions in polymer melts enabling us to reach larger length scales and simulate well entangled polymers. However, in polymer nanocomposites, reptational polymer diffusion is more complicated due to nanoparticle fillers size, loading, geometry and polymer-nanoparticle interactions.

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atomistic simulationbrownian dynamicsentangled polymer diffusionexperimentsmesoscale simulationmicroscale simulationmolecular dynamicsMonte Carloslip-spring models

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PMID31091725
PMCPMC6571671

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