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Glass Transition of Disentangled and Entangled Polymer Melts: Single-Chain-Nanoparticles Approach.

Manjesh K Singh, Minghan Hu, Yu Cang, Hsiao-Ping Hsu, Heloise Therien-Aubin, Kaloian Koynov, George Fytas, Katharina Landfester, Kurt Kremer

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Article in Macromolecules, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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9 authors.

Manjesh K SinghMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
Minghan HuMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
Yu CangMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
Hsiao-Ping HsuMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
Heloise Therien-AubinMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
Kaloian KoynovMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
George FytasMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
Katharina LandfesterMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
Kurt KremerMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study the effect of entanglements on the glass transition of high molecular weight polymers, by the comparison of single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) and equilibrated melts of high-molecular weight polystyrene of identical molecular weight. SCNPs were prepared by electrospraying technique and characterized using scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy techniques. Differential scanning calorimetry, Brillouin light spectroscopy, and rheological experiments around the glass transition were compared. In parallel, entangled and disentangled polymer melts were also compared under cooling from molecular dynamics simulations based on a bead-spring polymer model. While experiments suggest a small decrease in the glass transition temperature of films of nanoparticles in comparison to entangled melts, simulations do not observe any significant difference, despite rather different chain conformations.

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PMID32921812
PMCPMC7482400

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