Co-Design of Mechanical and Functional Properties of Plymers

Presentations

• Influence of Chemical Side Groups on Extensional Rheology and Elastic Fracture of Polymer Melts

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 6:00 PM – March 20, 2025, 6:36 PM

  Publication: Shen et al. Elastic fracture of polymer melts containing different chemical side groups. Under preparation.
  Cheng et al. The connection between chemical side groups, linear viscoelasticity and nonlinear extensional rheology. Under preparation.

  Presenters

  • Qian Huang

    Sichuan University

  Authors

  • Qian Huang

    Sichuan University

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• Invited: Dynamic Pressure-Sensitive Adhesion in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 6:36 PM – March 20, 2025, 7:12 PM

  Publication: 1- Ohzono, Takuya, Mohand O. Saed, and Eugene M. Terentjev. "Enhanced dynamic adhesion in nematic liquid crystal elastomers." Advanced Materials 31.30 (2019): 1902642.
  2- Guo, Hongye, Mohand O. Saed, and Eugene M. Terentjev. "Mechanism of pressure-sensitive adhesion in nematic elastomers." Macromolecules 56.16 (2023): 6247-6255.
  3- H. Gou, S. Hou, M. O. Saed, Strong, Reversible, Heat-Activated Adhesion from Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 2400488. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400488

  Presenters

  • Mohand O Saed

    University of Cambridge

  Authors

  • Mohand O Saed

    University of Cambridge

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• Adhesion, relaxation, and fluid transport in soft polymers

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 7:12 PM – March 20, 2025, 7:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Joelle Frechette

    UC Berkeley

  Authors

  • Joelle Frechette

    UC Berkeley

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• From polymer physics to macroscopic failure: Forces on polymer chains in nanofilled elastomers

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 7:48 PM – March 20, 2025, 8:24 PM

  Publication: 1. Chen, Y., et al., Spiropyran Mechano-Activation in Model Silica-Filled Elastomer Nanocomposites Reveals How Macroscopic Stress in Uniaxial Tension Transfers from Filler/Filler Contacts to Highly Stretched Polymer Strands. Macromolecules, 2023. 56(14): p. 5336-5345.
  
  

  Presenters

  • Costantino Creton

    ESPCI Paris

  Authors

  • Costantino Creton

    ESPCI Paris

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• Extremely tough networks: from polymers to metamaterials

  ORAL · Invited

  March 20, 2025, 8:24 PM – March 20, 2025, 9:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Xuanhe Zhao

    MIT

  Authors

  • Xuanhe Zhao

    MIT

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