Polymer melts with chains undergoing reversible crosslinking show two distinct modes of relaxation.
The rheology of complex coacervates can be elegantly tuned via the design and control of specific non-covalent hydrophobic interactions between the complexed polymer chains.
MD simulations show that polymerization of ionic liquids has a minor effect on the local structure, but it results in a significant slowdown and increased heterogeneity of anion and cation dynamics.
Poly(dimethyl-co-diphenyl)siloxane has improved mechanical properties compared with polydimethylsiloxane. We used atomistic molecular dynamics simulation to investigate how the diphenyl contents slow down the relaxation dynamics of the copolymers.
We investigate the conformational properties of semiflexible ring polymers theoretically within the principles of optimized Rouse–Zimm theory.