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Mobile Rings on a Polyrotaxane Lead to a Yield Force

Date

Authors

Pinson, Matthew

Sevick, Edith M

Williams, David

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Abstract

We examine the role of mobile rings on the stretching profile of a single polyrotaxane molecule that is tethered in space by fixing one of the rings, the "control ring". We show that the translational entropy of the mobile rings can lead to dramatic chang

Keywords

Keywords: Applied forces; Chain extension; Control rings; Polyrotaxanes; Translational entropies; Yield force; Macromolecules; Chemistry

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72820

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Macromolecules

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1021/ma4000094

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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