Physical review letters
Chain-Length-Dependent Correlated Molecular Motion in Polymers.
Matthew Reynolds, Daniel L Baker, Peter D Olmsted, Johan Mattsson
Published: 202510.1103/p5r4-2g4q
Abstract
We show how dynamic heterogeneities (DHs), a hallmark of glass-forming materials, depend on chain flexibility and chain length in polymers. For highly flexible polymers, a relatively large number of monomers (N_{c}∼500) undergo correlated motion at t…
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