A Unifying Theory of Polymer Liquids
In new theoretical work resulting from a collaboration between ETH Zurich and the University of South Florida, researchers derive expressions that describe the molecular-level behavior of a range of polymer liquids, inspired by entanglement analysis.
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Marc Roland Petitmermet
Sophia Chen, a freelance science writer based in Tucson, Arizona, prepared external page "Synopsis: A Unifying Theory of Polymer Liquids", Physics 13, s47 (2020) for the Editors of Physical Review Letters.
This text describes our contribution certainly: external page Robert Hoy and Martin Kröger, Unified Analytic Expressions for the Entanglement Length, Tube Diameter, and Plateau Modulus of Polymer Melts, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 147801 (2020)