Since the time first synthetic macrocycles were observed as academic curiosities, great
advances have been made. Thanks to the development of controlled polymerization …

The existing catalyst/initiator systems and methodologies used for the synthesis of polymers
can access only a few cyclic polymers composed entirely of a single monomer type, and the …

Steady-state shear viscosity η (γ̇) of unconcatenated ring polymer melts as a function of the
shear rate γ̇ is studied by a combination of experiments, simulations, and theory …

The selective synthesis of ultrahigh-molar-mass (UHMM,> 2 million Da) cyclic polymers is
challenging as an exceptional degree of spatiotemporal control is required to overcome the …

Ring polymers have fascinated theorists, simulators, and experimentalists as they are the
simplest polymer without ends, giving rise to important topology related properties. We …

We combine linear viscoelastic measurements and modeling in order to explore the
dynamics of blends of the same-molecular-weight ring and linear polymers in the regime of …

Adding small amounts of ring polymers to a matrix of their linear counterparts is known to
increase the zero-shear-rate viscosity because of linear-ring threading. Uniaxial extensional …

The intrinsic viscosity of cyclic polystyrenes (C-PS) and linear polystyrenes (L-PS) with
molecular weight (MW) ranging from 16K to 370K was measured in THF using size …

We present a comprehensive experimental rheological dataset for purified entangled ring
polystyrenes and their blends with linear chains in nonlinear shear and elongation. In …

We present here a systematic investigation on the glass transition temperature (T g) for a
series of highly purified cyclic polystyrene (c-PS) samples with molecular weight (MW) …