Influence of intensified cellulose dissolution process on spinning and properties of lyocell fibres

AJ Sayyed, D Gupta, NA Deshmukh, LV Mohite… - … and Processing-Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Effect of intensification of cellulose dissolution process on the spinning of lyocell
fibers and their physical properties was systematically investigated. The cellulose …

A Multiscale Simulation of Polymer Melt Injection Molding Filling Flow Using SPH Method with Slip-Link Model

M Ren, J Gu, Z Li, S Ruan, C Shen - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this article, a multiscale simulation method of polymer melt injection molding filling flow is
established by combining an improved smoothed particle hydrodynamics method and …

A slip-link model for rheology of entangled polymer melts with crystallization

M Andreev, GC Rutledge - Journal of Rheology, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Many industrial polymer melts are entangled and undergo crystallization during processing.
Several recent studies have reported experimental data for the rheology of crystallizing …

pyDSM: GPU-accelerated rheology predictions for entangled polymers in Python

JG Ethier, A Córdoba, JD Schieber - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Prior studies have extensively shown that the discrete slip-link model (DSM) accurately
predicts the linear and nonlinear rheology of various entangled polymer systems. The only …

Thermodynamically consistent incorporation of entanglement spatial fluctuations in the slip-link model

RJA Steenbakkers, M Andreev, JD Schieber - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We evaluate the thermodynamic consistency of the anisotropic mobile slip-link model for
entangled flexible polymers. The level of description is that of a single chain, whose …

Carboxylate functionalized imidazolium-based zwitterions as benign and sustainable solvent for cellulose dissolution: Synthesis and characterization

S Jadhav, V Ganvir, Y Shinde, S Revankar… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cellulose is most abundant biopolymer on earth and can be utilized as sustainable
resources for many applications, however, their utilization at great extent is limited due to …

Experiments and Modeling of Flow-Enhanced Nucleation in LLDPE

DA Nicholson, M Andreev, KL Kearns… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A computational and experimental framework for quantifying flow-enhanced nucleation
(FEN) in polymers is presented and demonstrated for an industrial-grade linear low-density …

Slip-spring simulations of different constraint release environments for linear polymer chains

T Ma, G Lin, H Tan - Royal Society Open Science, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The constraint release (CR) mechanism has important effects on polymer relaxation and the
chains will show different relaxation behaviour in conditions of monodisperse, bidisperse …

How many monodisperse fractions are required to discretize polydisperse polymers?

S Shanbhag - Macromolecular Theory and Simulations, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The linear viscoelasticity of polydisperse samples and their discretization into a blend of nf
monodisperse fractions is compared. The molecular weight distribution of the polydisperse …

Temporal coarse-graining in a slip link model for polydisperse polymer melts

S Shanbhag - Frontiers in Physics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
For ecoSLM—an ultra coarse-grained slip link model—the ability to use a time-step that
increases with chain molecular weight is an important source of efficiency in modeling the …