Dependence of the viscosity on the chain end dynamics in polymer melts

Details Dependence of the viscosity on the chain end dynamics in polymer melts Dependence of the viscosity on the chain end dynamics in polymer melts

2003-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0301349v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

14 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1572458

We compare the Rubinstein-Duke model for reptation to a model where the boundary dynamics is modified by calculating the viscosity of polymer melts. The question is investigated whether the viscosity is determined by details of the dynamics of the polymer ends or by the stretching of the polymer. To this end the dependence of the viscosity on the particle density of the lattice gas models which can be identified by the stretching is determined. We show that the influence of the stretching of the polymer on the absolute value of the viscosity in the scaling limit of of very long chains is much bigger than the influence of the boundary dynamics, whereas the corrections of the scaling of the viscosity depends significantly on the details of the boundary dynamics.

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