[HTML][HTML] Filled Elastomers: Mechanistic and Physics-Driven Modeling and Applications as Smart Materials

W Xian, YS Zhan, A Maiti, AP Saab, Y Li - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
Elastomers are made of chain-like molecules to form networks that can sustain large
deformation. Rubbers are thermosetting elastomers that are obtained from irreversible …

Multiscale modelling of transport in polymer-based reverse-osmosis/nanofiltration membranes: present and future

H Zhu, A Szymczyk, A Ghoufi - Discover Nano, 2024 - Springer
Nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) processes are physical separation
technologies used to remove contaminants from liquid streams by employing dense polymer …

Influence of Nanoparticles on the Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanical Behavior of Nonconcatenated Ring Polymers

T Yue, H Zhao, Y Wei, P Duan, L Zhang, J Wang… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The structure and dynamics of polymers in the presence of nanoparticles (NPs) determine
the macroscopic properties of polymer–nanoparticle composites (PNCs). Through molecular …

Molecular Dynamics Insight into the Effect of Chain Extension and Nonbond Interaction in Nanoparticle-Enhanced Plastic and Elastomer Double-Phase Recyclable …

W Shang, R Ren, S Chen, G Hou, Y Weng… - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) demonstrate excellent mechanical properties through the
addition of fillers to the polymer, making them versatile for various applications. However …

Insight into the Density-Dependence of Pair Potentials for Predictive Coarse-Grained Models

MC Lesniewski, WG Noid - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
We investigate the temperature-and density-dependence of effective pair potentials for 1-site
coarse-grained (CG) models of two industrial solvents, 1, 4-dioxane and tetrahydrofuran. We …

Molecular dynamics simulations informed hyperelastic constitutive model with insights into entangled free chains

J Liu, S Liang, Y Zhu, L Zhao, M Huang, Z Li - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstracts Due to the complexities of microstructure of molecular chains and their
interactions, it has been a great challenge to quantify the correlation between …

Chemically Specific Systematic Coarse-Grained Polymer Model with Both Consistently Structural and Dynamical Properties

XZ Zhang, R Shi, ZY Lu, HJ Qian - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
The coarse-grained (CG) model serves as a powerful tool for the simulation of polymer
systems; its reliability depends on the accurate representation of both structural and …

Variable entanglement density constitutive rheological model for polymeric fluids

PS Stephanou - Rheologica Acta, 2024 - Springer
A variable-entanglement density constitutive model is developed for the description of the
rheological properties of entangled polymer melts and concentrated polymer solutions using …

Toward Making Polymer Chemistry Autonomous

S Basak, A Bandyopadhyay - ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
The rise of fully automated chemical synthesis represents a groundbreaking shift in
laboratory research driven by rapid technological advancements. Instead of relying on …

Comparison of coarse-grained models for cis-1,4-polyisoprene-graphite system

R Kumar Giri, N Swaminathan - Molecular Simulation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Structural and dynamical properties of cis-1, 4-polyisoprene-graphite system were
compared by four coarse-grained models. Coarse-graining of graphene layers replaced four …