Kenneth R. Shull

TL;DR: It is shown that heterogeneous structure formed above the transition temperature is not conducive to internal solvent flow within these gels, and it is possible to differentiate between dissipation resulting frominternal solvent flow and dissipation due to the viscoelastic character of the polymer network itself.

TL;DR: In this article, an elastomeric membrane is placed across a cylindrical glass tube and is pressurized into contact with a substrate, which is determined indirectly from the measured contact radius and applied pressure.

TL;DR: This work showcases its achievements on two representative polymers of distinct fragilities, polybutadiene (PB) and polystyrene (PS), and shows that its CG models are able to sample viscoelasticity up to the megahertz regime, which approaches state-of-the-art experimental resolutions, and capture results sampled via AA simulations and prior experiments.

TL;DR: It is shown that templating, where rods are prepositioned for assembly, is scale invariant and that the energy-minimized state after this step is highly disordered, and that superstructures can be made independently from patterns of rods separated by a distance as small as six times the inter-rod spacing.