The role of structure in polymer rheology

VG Kulichikhin, AY Malkin - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review is devoted to the analysis of the current state of understanding relationships
among the deformation-induced structure transformations, observed rheological properties …

Shear-induced transitions in colloidal and polymeric liquids

AY Malkin - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
This review reflects different aspects of wide current studies of the phenomena related to the
shear-induced structure transformation in various complex liquids. Experimental data, being …

A multi-fluid model for microstructure formation in polymer membranes

DR Tree, KT Delaney, HD Ceniceros, T Iwama… - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We develop a multi-fluid model for a ternary polymer solution using the Rayleighian
formalism of Doi and Onuki, and give an efficient pseudo-spectral method for solving both …

Shear banding in polymer solutions

M Cromer, MC Villet, GH Fredrickson, LG Leal - Physics of Fluids, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The current theoretical belief is that the steady-state shear banding in viscoelastic liquids
requires a non-monotonic constitutive relationship between shear stress and shear rate …

Spinnability of dilute polymer solutions

AY Malkin, AV Semakov, IY Skvortsov… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Experiments carried out on a series of seven different polymers with molecular weights
varying over a wide range have allowed us to confirm that stable jets can be obtained at …

A study of shear banding in polymer solutions

M Cromer, GH Fredrickson, LG Leal - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
,” Phys. Fluids 25, 051703 (2013)], we showed the existence of a steady shear-banded
velocity profile for a model polymer solution with an underlying monotonic constitutive curve …

Electrostatic-Dominated Conformational Fluctuations and Transition States of Phase Separation in Charge-Balanced Protein Polymer

S Das, T Basu, S Majumdar - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydration of the protein/polymer is the most important aspect of stability. It is well-known that
salts alter the charged polymer's electrostatic forces, ultimately impacting its conformations …

On the nature of phase separation of polymer solutions at high extension rates

AV Semakov, VG Kulichikhin… - Journal of Polymer …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Experiments with stretching moderately concentrated polymer solutions have been carried
out. Model experiments were carried out for poly (acrylonitrile) solutions in dimethyl …

Atomistic simulation of flow-induced microphase separation and crystallization of an entangled polyethylene melt undergoing uniaxial elongational flow and the role of …

MH Nafar Sefiddashti, BJ Edwards, B Khomami - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Atomistic simulations of the linear, entangled polyethylene C1000H2002 melt undergoing
steady-state and startup conditions of uniaxial elongational flow (UEF) over a wide range of …

Flow-induced phase separation and crystallization in entangled polyethylene solutions under elongational flow

MH Nafar Sefiddashti, BJ Edwards, B Khomami - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Flow-induced phenomena in entangled solutions of linear C1000H2002 polyethylene
dissolved in n-hexadecane and benzene solvents were simulated via nonequilibrium …