Contribution of Entanglements to Polymer Network Elasticity
- Campise, Florencia
- Agudelo Mora, Diana Carolina
- Acosta, Rodolfo Héctor
- Villar, Marcelo Armando
- Valles, Enrique Marcelo
- Monti, Gustavo Alberto
- Vega, Daniel Alberto
DOIAbstract
Trapped entanglements, cross-linker functionality, and elastically effective chains are the sources of elasticity of polymer networks and gels. However, despite more than 80 years of theoretical and experimental research in this field, still little is known about their relative contribution to network elasticity. In this work, we use double quantum nuclear magnetic resonance (DQ NMR) experiments to characterize the elasticity of model polymer networks prepared with cross-linkers of mixed functionality and control of structural defects. An order parameter that condensates the elastic response within the theoretical framework of the entangled phantom theory for rubber elasticity was identified. Standard lore dictates that low molecular weight...
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