화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecules, Vol.45, No.16, 6648-6651, 2012
Reentanglement Kinetics of Freeze-Dried Polymers above the Glass Transition Temperature
Rheology experiments were performed to monitoring the kinetics of the entanglement recovery process of freeze-dried polystyrene. Complete reentanglement time requires unexpected long time, which does not monotonically reduce with the concentration of precursor solution. The entanglement recovery was treated as the complementary process of stress relaxation in Doi-Edwards model and was found to agree well with the exponential law. We clarified that freeze-drying is an effective way to achieve disentanglement for polymer chains. The correlation between recovery time and the concentration of precursor solution is in good agreement with previous results from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.