Polymer Viscoelasticity: Basics, Molecular Theories, Experiments And Simulations

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This book covers in great detail the Rouse-segment-based molecular theories in polymer viscoelasticity - the Rouse theory and the extended reptation theory (based on the framework of the Doi-Edwards theory) - that have been shown to explain experimental results in a consistently quantitative way. The explanation for the 3.4 power law of viscosity, quantitative line-shape analyses of viscoelastic responses and agreements between different sorts of viscoelastic responses, the consistency between the viscoelasticity and diffusion results, the clarification of the onset of entangelement, the discovery of the number of entanglement strands per cubed entanglement distance being a universal constant and the basic mechanism of the glass transition-related thermorheological complexity are discussed or shown in great detail. The mystery behind the success of the Rouse-segment-based molecular theories over the entropic region of a viscoelastic response is revealed by the Monte Carlo simulations on the Fraenkel chains. Specifically, the simulation studies give a natural explanation for the coexistence of the energy-driven and entropy-driven modes in a viscoelastic response and provide a theoretical basis resolving the paradox that the experimentally determined sizes of Rouse and Kuhn segments are nearly the same. This book starts from a very fundamental level; each chapter is built upon the contents of the previous chapters. Thus, the readers may use the book as a textbook and eventually reach an advanced research level. This book is also a useful source of reference for physicists, chemists and material scientists.

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Polymer Viscoelasticity Basics, Molecular Theories, Experiments and Simulations 2nd Edition 7786 tp.indd 1 9/9/10 11:27 AM September 6, 2010 9:42 WSPC/Book Trim Size for 9in x 6in This page intentionally left blank b959-fm FA Yn-Hwang Lin National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Polymer Viscoelasticity Basics, Molecular Theories, Experiments and Simulations 2nd Edition World Scientific NEW JERSEY 7786 tp.indd 2 • LONDON • SINGAPORE • BEIJING • SHANGHAI • HONG KONG • TA I P E I • CHENNAI 9/9/10 11:27 AM Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lin, Y.-H. Polymer viscoelasticity : basics, molecular theories, experiments, and simulations / Yn-Hwang Lin. -- 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-981-4313-03-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 981-4313-03-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Polymers--Viscocity. 2. Viscoelasticity. I. Title. QD281.P6L56 2010 620.1'9204232--dc22 2010038333 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2011 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. Typeset by Stallion Press Email:
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