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Lubrication in polymer-brush bilayers in the weak interpenetration regime: Molecular dynamics simulations and scaling
Parth Rakesh Desai1, Siddhartha Das1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Abstract:
We conduct molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and develop scaling laws to quantify the lubrication behavior of weakly interpenetrated polymer brush bilayers in the presence of an external shear force. The weakly interpenetrated regime is characterized by 1
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