Abstract
Nonlinear Theological properties of a tightly-entangled solution of persistent macromolecules are calculated within the context of a tube model. It is shown that the curvature stress in highly deformed solutions of such chains is dominated by the contributions of deformation-induced "hairpins", i.e., rare but very tightly curved segments of the deformed chain conformations. The model is found to exhibit strain softening in shear deformations.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5934-5943 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Macromolecules |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 7 1999 |
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