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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 93, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.022605
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Polymer networks at the margins of mechanical stability are known to be highly sensitive to applied forces and fields and to exhibit an anomalously large resistance to deformation. In this paper, we study the effects of hydrodynamic interactions on the behavior of marginal networks using a hybrid molecular dynamics and multiparticle collision dynamics simulation technique. We examine how the filament and solvent properties affect the response of marginal networks to shear. We find that the stiffening of the network shows a stronger dependence on the shear frequency when hydrodynamic interactions are present than when they are not. The network shear modulus scales as G' similar to omega(alpha c), with a critical stiffening exponent alpha(c) that can be controlled by varying the relative concentrations of the network and the solvent. Our results show that this arises due to the solvent aiding the relaxation of the network and suppressing the network nonaffinity, with the system deforming more affinely when hydrodynamic interactions are maximized.
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