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Yinrui Wang1, Anika Goecke2, Valerian Hirschberg2,3
1Polymer Research Institute, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Abstract:
Previous studies have shown that the nonlinear rheological behavior of 3-arm star polymer melts in fast extensional flow is identical to that of linear polymers with the same span molecular weight, because the star polymers are highly aligned and have a similar conformation as the corresponding linear polymers. However, with more arms, it would be more difficult for the stars to be aligned like linear chains, and the nonlinear extensional rheology of star polymers with more arms under large deformations has not been investigated yet. Here we show that the star polystyrene (8-10 arms) melts behave differently from the linear polystyrenes. A transient stress overshoot is observed in the fast extensional flow, probably due to the difference in entanglement density near and far away from the branch point.
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