Interfacial Slip in Sheared Polymer Blends
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1 Materials Science
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We have developed a dynamic self-consistent field theory, without any adjustable parameters, for unentangled polymer blends under shear. Our model accounts for the interaction between polymers, and enables one to compute the evolution of the local rheology, microstructure and the conformations of the polymer chains under shear self-consistently. We use this model to study the interfacial dynamics in sheared polymer blends and make a quantitative comparison between this model and Molecular Dynamics simulations. We find good agreement between the two methods.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0411316,
title = {Interfacial Slip in Sheared Polymer Blends},
author = {Tak Shing Lo and Maja Mihajlovic and Yitzhak Shnidman and Wentao Li and Dilip Gersappe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0411316},
year = {2009}
}