Effect of Chain Polydispersity on the Elasticity of Disordered Polymer Networks
Effect of Chain Polydispersity on the Elasticity of Disordered Polymer Networks
Due to their unique structural and mechanical properties, randomly cross-linked polymer networks play an important role in many different fields, ranging from cellular biology to industrial processes. In order to elucidate how these properties are controlled by the physical details of the network (e.g., chain-length and end-to-end distributions), we generate …