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Shear rheology and structural properties of chemically identical dendrimer-linear polymer blends through molecular dynamics simulations.
Journal of Chemical Physics 2014 November 22
We present nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulation results for the miscibility, structural properties, and melt rheological behavior of polymeric blends under shear flow. The polymeric blends consist of chemically identical linear polymer chains (187 monomers per chain) and dendrimer polymers of generations g = 1-4. The number fraction x of the dendrimer species is varied (4%, 8%, and 12%) in the blend melt. The miscibility of blend species is measured, using the pair distribution functions gDL, gLL, and gDD. All the studied systems form miscible blend melts under the conditions investigated. We also study the effect of shear rate γ̇ and dendrimer generation on inter-penetration between blend species for different blend systems. The results reveal that shear flow increases the interpenetration of linear chains toward the core of the dendrimers. We also calculate the shear-rate dependent radius of gyration and ratios of the eigenvalues of the gyration tensor to study the shear-induced deformation of the molecules in the blend. Melt rheological properties including the shear viscosity and first and second normal stress coefficients obtained from NEMD simulations at constant pressure are found to fall into the range between those of pure dendrimer and pure linear polymer melts.
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