Low-intensity mixing process of high molecular weight polymer chains leads to elastomers of long network strands and high fatigue threshold
Abstract
Traditional polymer processing breaks polymer chains. The resulting networks of short chains have a low fatigue threshold. This paper shows that a low-intensity process preserves long chains, leading to a network of an increased fatigue threshold.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.1039/d3sm00687e
Entities
People
- Guodong Nian
- Junsoo Kim
- Quan Jiao
- Xianyang Bao
- Yakov Kutsovsky
- Zhigang Suo
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Harvard University
- National Science Foundation