Comb and bottlebrush polymers present a wide range of rheological and mechanical
properties that can be controlled through their molecular characteristics, such as the …

The damping function has been a concept introduced in rheology since more than 30 years
ago, and although a similar concept was already earlier implemented in studying rubber …

We provide a Perspective on recent findings in extensional rheology for polymer melts and
solutions with different macromolecular architectures. For linear polymer systems, we focus …

Monodisperse comb polystyrenes (comb-PS) with loosely to densely grafted architectures
up to loosely grafted bottlebrush structures were synthesized via anionic polymerization …

Well-defined, monodisperse homopolymer comb architectures with varied number and
length of the branches under linear and nonlinear deformation were synthesized and …

The POM–POM architecture is the simplest yet defined branched architecture, showing both
strain hardening in elongation and strain softening in shear. The molecular structure …

The recyclability of opaque PET, which contains TiO2 nanoparticles, has not been as well-
studied as that of transparent PET. The objective of this work is to recycle post-consumer …

A Pom-Pom polymer with qa side chains of molecular weight M w, a at both ends of a
backbone chain of molecular weight M w, b is the simplest branched polymer topology. Ten …

The shear and elongational rheology of linear and pom-pom shaped polystyrene (PS)
blends was investigated experimentally and modeled using constitutive models such as the …

Rheological equations of state are of great importance for characterization of polymer melts
and for simulation of polymer processing. This concise review considers tube model based …