Abstract
The statistical mechanics of a confined polymer is presented. The calculations of the tube diameter and plateau modulus were based on two very different and complemetary descriptions of the interactions between a chain and its surroundings in an entangled polymer network. The binary collision approximation attempted to describe the motion of a test chain in a partially frozen environment where the surrounding chains are confined to static tubes and based upon a treatment of the nearby chain interactions.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 315021-3150222 |
| Number of pages | 2835202 |
| Journal | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 3 I |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2001 |