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Predicting the Plateau Modulus from Molecular Parameters of Conjugated Polymers
cris.boxmetadata.label.dateissued
23 browse.startsWith.months.february 2022
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open access
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journal article
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Fenton A.M.
Xie R.
Aplan M.P.
Lee Y.
Gill M.G.
Fair R.
Kempe F.
Sommer M.
Snyder C.R.
Colby R.H.
The Pennsylvania State University
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American Chemical Society
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The relationship between Kuhn length lk, Kuhn monomer volume v0, and plateau modulus GN0, initially proposed by Graessley and Edwards for flexible polymers, and extended by Everaers, has a large gap in experimental data between the flexible and stiff regimes. This gap prevents the prediction of mechanical properties from the chain structure for any polymer in this region. Given the chain architecture, including a semiflexible backbone and side chains, conjugated polymers are an ideal class of material to study this crossover region. Using small angle neutron scattering, oscillatory shear rheology, and the freely rotating chain model, we have shown that 12 polymers with aromatic backbones populate a large part of this gap. We also have shown that a few of these polymers exhibit nematic ordering, which lowers GN0. When fully isotropic, these polymers follow a relationship between lk, v0, and GN0, with a simple crossover proposed in terms of the number of Kuhn segments in an entanglement strand Ne
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268
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274
cris.boxmetadata.label.volume
8
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2
cris.boxmetadata.label.language
English
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Física de la materia condensada Ingeniería de materiales
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2-s2.0-85123915942
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ACS Central Science
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23747943
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The authors thank Scott T. Milner and Robert S. Hoy for helpful comments. Funding support from the National Science Foundation under award numbers DMR-1629006 and DMR-1921854 is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank R. Matsidik for synthesizing the PNDI(2OD)T2 sample. We acknowledge the support of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, for providing the neutron research facilities used in this work. Use of the NG-B 10 m SANS instrument was supported by the NIST nSoft Consortium.
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