Rare events are processes that occur upon the emergence of unlikely fluctuations. Unlike
what their name suggests, rare events are fairly ubiquitous in nature, as the occurrence of …

Polymer materials are multiscale systems by definition. Already the description of a single
macromolecule involves a multitude of scales, and cooperative processes in polymer …

We briefly review the recent advances in the rheology of entangled polymers and identify
emerging research trends and outstanding challenges, especially with respect to branched …

Vitrimers are polymer networks that engage in dynamic associative exchange reactions.
Their covalent cross-links preserve network connectivity but permit topology fluctuations …

A hierarchical (triple scale) simulation methodology is presented for the prediction of the
dynamical and rheological properties of high molecular-weight entangled polymer melts …

We report on recent progress in our understanding of the rheological behavior of polymer
melts, resulting from the work of several investigators, mostly on fast extensional flows. They …

Atomistic simulations have been very useful for predicting the viscoelastic properties of
polymers but face great difficulties in accessing the dynamics of dense, well entangled long …

A mesoscopic, mixed particle-and field-based Brownian dynamics methodology for the
simulation of entangled polymer melts has been developed. Polymeric beads consist of …

The chain retraction hypothesis of the tube model for nonlinear polymer rheology has been
challenged by the recent small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiment (Wang, Z.; Lam …

Although the tube models have attained remarkable success, development of a simulation
method for entangled branch polymer dynamics is still a challenge. In this study, the …