We provide a Perspective on recent findings in extensional rheology for polymer melts and
solutions with different macromolecular architectures. For linear polymer systems, we focus …

Numerous mechanically strong and tough soft materials comprising of polymer networks
have been developed over the last two decades, motivated by new high-tech applications in …

We present a comprehensive experimental rheological dataset for purified entangled ring
polystyrenes and their blends with linear chains in nonlinear shear and elongation. In …

Extensive molecular simulations are applied to characterize the equilibrium dynamics,
entanglement topology, and nonlinear extensional rheology of symmetric ring-linear …

The shear and elongational rheology of linear and pom-pom shaped polystyrene (PS)
blends was investigated experimentally and modeled using constitutive models such as the …

Threading of a linear chain through a ring has been known to have a strong effect on
slowing the dynamics of the ring. To enhance the toughness of soft materials using ring …

How local stresses propagate through polymeric fluids, and, more generally, how
macromolecular dynamics give rise to viscoelasticity are open questions vital to wide …

We derive and parameterize effective interaction potentials between a multitude of different
types of ring polymers and linear chains, varying the bending rigidity and solvent quality for …

Strain hardening of long-chain branched polymers in elongational flow occurs due to the
stretch of the backbone chain between branch points. With an increasing number of side …

Topological interactions between cyclic and linear polymers have attracted significant
attention to exploring the properties of soft materials. However, the complete picture of the …