Effect of functionality on unentangled star polymers at equilibrium and under shear flow
Effect of functionality on unentangled star polymers at equilibrium and under shear flow is a scholarly work, published in 2016 in ''Journal of Chemical Physics''. The main subjects of the publication include materials science, rheology, shear, shear rate, simple shear, shear flow, Shear thinning, granular material, viscosity, polymer, crystallization of polymers, and mechanics. At equilibrium, the star polymer shows a crossover from a linear, freely penetrable, extremely soft object to a spherical, slightly hard object with an impenetrable center with increasing f.