Topic

Polymer physics

The study of how chain length, shape and entanglement govern the bulk, surface and interfacial behaviour of plastics and other macromolecular materials.

Current clusters

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One calculation tracks PMMA's stiffness from terahertz vibrations down to millihertz lab rates

Working from an atomistic model of PMMA, the authors added a power-law memory kernel to non-affine lattice dynamics and matched molecular dynamics plus three kinds of measurement down to millihertz frequencies.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+22
Incentives70
Confidence42

science1 publisher

Closing a polymer chain into a ring widened interfacial mixing from 1.9 to 5.0 nanometres

Ring-shaped polylactide mixed much further into a chemically identical layer than the linear version of the same chain length. A prediction from 1986 finally has a direct measurement at a real polymer interface.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives58
Confidence57