Rubber elasticity of realizable ideal networks

• Published in: AIP advances Vol. 8; no. 12; pp. 125005 - 125005-11
• Main Authors: Toda, Masatoshi, Morita, Hiroshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melville American Institute of Physics 01.12.2018; AIP Publishing LLC
• Subjects: Chains; Crosslinking; Deformation mechanisms; Elasticity; Molecular chains; Molecular conformation; Molecular dynamics; Networks; Rubber; Shear modulus

The rubber elasticity of four types of defectless crystalline-like networks has been investigated by coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to test the validity of Kuhn’s affine network theory of rubber elasticity. The shear moduli of the realizable ideal networks are obtained through their u...