Rouse dynamics of polymer networks bearing dendritic wedges

被引:48
作者
Gurtovenko, AA
Gotlib, YY
Blumen, A
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[1] Univ Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
[2] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Macromol Cpds, St Petersburg 199004, Russia
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10.1021/ma0204507
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O63 [高分子化学(高聚物)];
学科分类号
070305 ; 080501 ; 081704 ;
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We present a theoretical study of a new class of polymer materials of much recent experimental interest: polymer networks bearing dendritic wedges in the middle of long network strands. We focus on the Rouse dynamics of such cross-linked polymers and perform our study in three steps, considering first single dendritic wedges, then linear chains bearing dendritic wedges (CBDWs), and finally networks formed by end-linked CBDWs. Using analytical and numerical calculations we find that for linear CBDWs increasing the generation number g of dangling dendritic wedges decreases the storage shear modulus G'(omega) in the low-frequency domain, i.e., makes the large-scale relaxation more rapid. The zero shear viscosity also decreases with g, indicating a trend opposite to that of dendrimers with small g. Our findings are in qualitative agreement with recent rheological experimental data on side chain dendritic polymers. On the contrary, increasing g for dendritic wedges attached to regular networks slows down the low-frequency relaxation; this goes so far as to lead for large g in the intermediate frequency domain to a tendency toward a plateau in G'(omega). We relate these effects to the presence in CBDW systems' of the dangling dendritic wedges, which lower the mobility of the linear chains.
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