This article gives a review of the entanglement dynamics of flexible polymer chains from
theoretical and experimental points of view. The global motion of the entangled chains …

The dynamics of entangled flexible polymers is dominated by physics general to many
chemical systems. It is an appealing interdisciplinary field where experimental and …

This review concerns modeling studies of the fundamental problem of entangled
(reptational) homopolymer diffusion in melts and nanocomposite materials in comparison to …

After many years of intense research, most aspects of the motion of entangled polymers
have been understood. Long linear and branched polymers have a characteristic …

A refined version of the Doi and Edwards tube model for entangled polymer liquids is
presented. The model is intended to cover linear chains in the full range of deformation rates …

The Doi− Edwards (DE) theory for the rheological properties of entangled polymer melts and
solutions successfully predicts the response to large step-shear strains but fails to predict …

We propose a theoretical framework for dealing with a transient polymer network
undergoing small deformations, based on the rate of breaking and reforming of network …

We investigate the nonlinear shear and uniaxial extensional rheology of entangled
polystyrene (PS) melts and solutions having the same number Z of entanglements, hence …

A scaling model of self-similar conformations and dynamics of nonconcatenated entangled
ring polymers is developed. Topological constraints force these ring polymers into compact …

We present a simple scaling theory of the dynamics of a ring polymer in a gel. In the
absence of excluded volume interactions, we predict that the translational diffusion …