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MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 224, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/macp.202200214
Keywords
comb polymers; dendrigraft branch-on-branch topology; extensional rheology; physical batch foaming; shear rheology; strain hardening factor
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The influence of topology on strain hardening in uniaxial elongation was studied using synthesized model polystyrenes. The results showed that topology significantly affects the strain hardening factor and strain rate of the materials.
The influence of topology on the strain hardening in uniaxial elongation is investigated using monodisperse comb and dendrigraft model polystyrenes (PS) synthesized via living anionic polymerization. A backbone with a molecular weight of M-w,M-bb = 310 kg mol(-1) is used for all materials, while a number of 100 short (SCB, M-w,M-scb = 15 kg mol(-1)) or long chain branches (LCB, M-w,M-lcb = 40 kg mol(-1)) are grafted onto the backbone. The synthesized LCB comb serves as precursor for the dendrigraft-type branch-on-branch (bob) structures to add a second generation of branches (SCB, M-w,M-scb approximate to 14 kg mol(-1)) that is varied in number from 120 to 460. The SCB and LCB combs achieve remarkable strain hardening factors (SHF) of around 200 at strain rates greater than 0.1 s(-1). In contrast, the bob PS reach exceptionally high SHF of 1750 at very low strain rates of 0.005 s(-1) using a tilted sample placement to extend the maximum Hencky strain from 4 to 6. To the best of the authors' knowledge, SHF this high have never been reported for polymer melts. Furthermore, the batch foaming with CO2 is investigated and the volume expansions of the resulting polymer foams are correlated to the uniaxial elongational properties.
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