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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 51, Issue 8, Pages 2887-2898Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00135
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- W. M. Keck Foundation
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It has been known for SO years that polymers exhibit chain normal mode decoupling upon approach to the glass transition, with chain dynamics exhibiting a weaker temperature dependence than segmental dynamics. Inspired by Sokolov and Schweizer's suggestion that this thermorheological complexity is a consequence of dynamic heterogeneity in the supercooled state, we generalize the Rouse model to account for a distribution of segmental mobilities. The heterogeneous Rouse model (HRM) predicts chain translational normal mode decoupling as a manifestation of diffusion/relaxation decoupling (Stokes Einstein breakdown) a consequence of differences in how normal modes average over a distribution of segmental mobilities. Molecular dynamics simulations agree with theoretical predictions, with the HRM found to quantitatively predict deviations from Rouse scaling of the translational friction coefficient based on the observed degree of Stokes Einstein breakdown.
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