Excluded volume effects on the structure of a linear polymer under shear flow

Details Excluded volume effects on the structure of a linear polymer under shear flow Excluded volume effects on the structure of a linear polymer under shear flow

2000-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0003166v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

36 pages, 11 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1287738

The effect of excluded volume interactions on the structure of a polymer in shear flow is investigated by Brownian Dynamics simulations for chains with size $30\leq N\leq 300$. The main results concern the structure factor $S({\bf q})$ of chains of N=300 Kuhn segments, observed at a reduced shear rate $\beta=\dot{\gamma}\tau=3.2$, where $\dot{\gamma}$ is the bare shear rate and $\tau$ is the longest relaxation time of the chain. At low q, where anisotropic global deformation is probed, the chain form factor is shown to match the form factor of the continuous Rouse model under shear at the same reduced shear rate, computed here for the first time in a wide range of wave vectors. At high q, the chain structure factor evolves towards the isotropic equilibrium power law $q^{-1/\nu}$ typical of self-avoiding walk statistics. The matching between excluded volume and ideal chains at small q, and the excluded volume power law behavior at large q are observed for ${\bf q}$ orthogonal to the main elongation axis but not yet for ${\bf q}$ along the elongation direction itself, as a result of interferences with finite extensibility effects. Our simulations support the existence of anisotropic shear blobs for polymers in good solvent under shear flow for $\beta>1$ provided chains are sufficiently long.

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