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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 6: Poster Session II
CPP 6.25: Poster
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 17:30–19:30, P
Understanding the structure of reversible networks made of star polymers — •Kiran Suresh Kumar1,2, Toni Müller1,2, Jens-Uwe Sommer1,2, and Michael Lang1 — 1Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Institut Theorie der Polymere, Hohe Strasse 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany — 2Institute für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Bonds in reversible networks break and form continuously allowing the material to flow and self-heal on long time scales while being a solid on short times. Recent work utilized a regular star branched architecture in combination with a controlled pairwise association of reversible groups to reveal the impact of network defects on the material properties [1-4]. We develop a model for network structure by combining previous work on network defects in irreversible networks [5] with the method of balance equations [6] for reversible systems. The model predictions for the frequency of different star types are tested by Monte Carlo simulations of network structure.
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