TY - JOUR
T1 - Crowded, Confined, and Frustrated: Dynamics of Molecules Tethered to Nanoparticles
AU - Agarwal, Praveen
AU - Kim, Sung A.
AU - Archer, Lynden A.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUS-C1-018-02
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. DMR-1006323 and by Grant No. KUS-C1-018-02, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Facilities available though the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) were used for this study.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.
PY - 2012/12/19
Y1 - 2012/12/19
N2 - Above a critical chemistry-dependent molecular weight, all polymer molecules entangle and, as a result, exhibit slow dynamics, enhanced viscosity, and elasticity. Herein we report on the dynamics of low molecular weight polymers tethered to nanoparticles and find that even conventionally unentangled chains manifest dynamical features similar to entangled, long-chain molecules. Our findings are shown to imply that crowding and confinement of polymers on particles produce topological constraints analogous to those in entangled systems. © 2012 American Physical Society.
AB - Above a critical chemistry-dependent molecular weight, all polymer molecules entangle and, as a result, exhibit slow dynamics, enhanced viscosity, and elasticity. Herein we report on the dynamics of low molecular weight polymers tethered to nanoparticles and find that even conventionally unentangled chains manifest dynamical features similar to entangled, long-chain molecules. Our findings are shown to imply that crowding and confinement of polymers on particles produce topological constraints analogous to those in entangled systems. © 2012 American Physical Society.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597901
UR - https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.258301
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871562253&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.258301
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.258301
M3 - Article
C2 - 23368504
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 109
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 25
ER -