Advances and New Opportunities in the Rheology of Physically and Chemically Reversible Polymers

• Published in: Macromolecules Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 697 - 714
• Main Authors: Wu, Shilong, Chen, Quan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 08.02.2022
• Subjects: chemical species; crosslinking; dissociation; gelation; Gibbs free energy; rheology; thermal energy; viscoelasticity

The advances in understanding the dynamics of both the physically and chemically reversible networks are summarized from a rheological perspective. The focus is placed on linear viscoelasticity, which is related to thermodynamics and reversible kinetics at quasi-equilibrium states. We first explain...