TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ripoll, M.
AU  - Winkler, R. G.
AU  - Gompper, G.
TI  - Star polymers in shear flow
JO  - Physical review letters
VL  - 96
SN  - 0031-9007
CY  - College Park, Md.
PB  - APS
M1  - PreJuSER-51296
SP  - 188302
PY  - 2006
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - Linear and star polymers in solution are studied in the presence of shear flow. The solvent is described by a particle-based mesoscopic simulation technique, which accounts for hydrodynamic interactions. The scaling properties of the average gyration tensor, the orientation angle, and the rotation frequency are investigated for various arm lengths and arm numbers. With increasing functionality f, star polymers exhibit a crossover in their flow properties from those of linear polymers to a novel behavior, which resembles the tank-treading motion of elastic capsules.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000237478000061
DO  - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.188302
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/51296
ER  -