Nonlinear Rheology of Entangled Symmetric and Asymmetric Star Polymers

Download or read book Nonlinear Rheology of Entangled Symmetric and Asymmetric Star Polymers written by Amy Kathleen Tezel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asymmetric stars are intriguing because they are very similar to both linear chains and symmetric stars. Currently work is being done in other groups to quantitatively describe asymmetric stars in the linear viscoelastic regime. We have synthesized our own batch of asymmetric stars and have conducted the first study of asymmetric stars in the nonlinear regime. These results are examined in the context of previous work done on linear and symmetric star polymers.