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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Entanglements of Macromolecules and Their Influence on Rheological and Mechanical Properties of Polymers.

Andrzej Pawlak, Justyna Krajenta

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Andrzej PawlakCentre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, 90-363 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2220-3402
Justyna KrajentaCentre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, 90-363 Lodz, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6671-5621

Funding

Centrum Badań Molekularnych i Makromolekularnych Polskiej Akademii Nauk 500-03
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flexible macromolecules easily become entangled with neighboring macromolecules. The resulting network determines many polymer properties, including rheological and mechanical properties. Therefore, a number of experimental and modeling studies were performed to describe the relationship between the degree of entanglement of macromolecules and polymer properties. The introduction presents general information about the entanglements of macromolecule chains, collected on the basis of studies of equilibrium entangled polymers. It is also shown how the density of entanglements can be reduced. The second chapter presents experiments and models leading to the description of the movement of a single macromolecule. The next part of the text discusses how the rheological properties change after partial disentangling of the polymer. The results on the influence of the degree of chain entanglement on mechanical properties are presented.

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entanglementsmechanical propertiesrheology of polymerssemi-crystalline polymers

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PMID39064989
PMCPMC11280004

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