Flow response of ring polymer melts

Work by John Bracewell and Dvora Perahia at Clemson University and Gary Grest at Sandia National Laboratories.

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations were used to probe the flow response of compressible, associative ring polymer melts as the strength of the associative groups is varied; systems in which both the absence of ends and the interaction strength of the associative groups affect the motion of the macromolecules.