On the dynamics of polymers in dense systems – Results of neutron spin echo spectroscopy |
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Authors: | D Richter |
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Institution: | 1. Institut für Festk?rperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D‐52425, Jülich, Germany
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Abstract: | One of the basic problems in the dynamics of polymers concerns the importance of geometrical or topological interactions which
are directly related to the large scale molecular structures. In the famous reptation model these constraints are pictured
in terms of a tube of localization following the average chain profile and confining the chain motion to the curve‐linear
tube. Recently studying the dynamic structure factor of a single labeled chain in a polymer melt by means of neutron spin
echo spectroscopy (NSE) led to a direct observation of these tube constraints. Here I shall summarize these neutron spin echo
experiments. I shall address the NSE technique, present results on the entropy driven segmental chain dynamics, discuss the
dynamics of single chains in the melt where the chain length is increased through the transition to “reptation” dynamics and
display NSE measurements on long chain systems which revealed the molecular existence of the entanglement distance. Their
magnitudes agree very well with tube diameters derived from dynamical mechanical measurements on the basis of the reptation
model proving thereby the basic assumption of this Nobel Price winning concept.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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