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    • Modeling elongational viscosity of polystyrene Pom-Pomlinear and Pom-Pomstar blends
    Authors: Hirschberg, Valerian; Lyu, Shan; Schußmann, Max G.;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2023)

    The elongational rheology of blends of a polystyrene (PS) Pom-Pom with two linear polystyrenes was recently reported by Hirschberg et al. (J. Rheol. 2023, 67:403–415). The Pom-Pom PS280k-2x22-22k with a self-entangled backbone (Mw,bb = 280 kg/mol) and 22 entangled sidearms (Mw,a = 22 kg/mol) at each of the two branch points was blended at weight fractions from 75 to 2 wt% with two linear polystyrenes (PS) having Mw of 43 kg/mol (PS43k) and 90 kg/mol (PS90k), respectively. While the pure Pom-Pom shows strong strain hardening in elongational flow (SHF > 100), strain hardening (SHF > 10) is still observed in Pom-Pom/linear blends containing only 2 wt% of Pom-Pom.