Over the past 25 years, IRIS has become an integral resource in materials laboratories
around the world, bringing together stimulating communities of rheology experimentalists …

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 …

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 study of commercial low-density polyethylenes (LDPEs) has always focused on the
effects of the molecular architecture of the polymer on its shear and extensional rheological …

Strain hardening of long-chain branched polymers in elongational flow occurs due to the
stretch of the backbone chain between branch points. With an increasing number of side …

Abstract The Hierarchical Multi-mode Molecular Stress Function (HMMSF) model predicts
the elongational and multiaxial extensional viscosities of polydisperse linear polymer melts …

Abstract The Hierarchical Multi-mode Molecular Stress Function (HMMSF) model predicts
the elongational start-up viscosity of long-chain branched (LCB) polymer melts quantitatively …

A pressure balanced bubble‐growth (PBB) model was proposed to analyze bubble
coalescence and determine the bubble radius for the melt foaming of long‐chain branched …

Presence of an ultra high molecular weight (UHMw) fraction in flowing polymer melts is
known to facilitate formation of oriented crystalline structures significantly. The UHMw …

The rheological behaviors of commercial foaming-grade poly (ethylene terephthalate)(PET)
were measured and modeled, on the basis of which quantitative simulations on the …