Strain hardening of polymer melts is able to improve the uniformity of items in processing
operations with elongational deformation. Of particular interest in this aspect is the …

Recent advances in polymer science have made it possible to relate quantitatively
molecular structure to rheological behavior. At the same time, new methods of synthesis and …

Ionically conductive fibers have promising applications; however, complex processing
techniques and poor stability limit their practicality. To overcome these challenges, we …

We compare viscoelastic properties of several polystyrene solutions and melts with the
same number of entanglements. It is demonstrated that the modulus and time can be shifted …

Polymers synthesized via anionic polymerization have proved important to our fundamental
understanding of the processing, that is rheology and crystallisation, of bulk commodity …

Linear viscoelastic properties in both melt and solution states are reported for a series of
poly (3, 6-dioxa-1, 8-octanedithiol)(polyDODT) made by reversible radical recombination …

While there has been much success in modeling the linear and nonlinear rheology of
monodisperse entangled linear polymers, progress in the constitutive modeling of polymeric …

We present a detailed systematic investigation of the transient uniaxial extensional response
of a series of well-characterized, anionically synthesized comb polystyrenes and …

The entanglement length N e is a key parameter for all entangled polymer fluids for which no
comprehensive scaling theory yet exists. We have pieces of a theory; the Lin-Noolandi (LN) …

We revisit previously published dielectric and viscoelastic data of binary blends of linear cis-
polyisoprene [Watanabe, H.; Ishida, S.; Matsumiya, Y.; Inoue, T. Macromolecules 2004, 37 …