Topology-Based Detection and Tracking of Deadlocks Reveal Aging of Active Ring Melts
- Author(s)
- Cristian Micheletti, Iurii Chubak, Enzo Orlandini, Jan Smrek
- Abstract
Connecting the viscoelastic behavior of stressed ring melts to the various forms of entanglement that can emerge in such systems is still an open challenge. Here, we consider active ring melts, where stress is generated internally, and introduce a topology-based method to detect and track consequential forms of ring entanglements, namely, deadlocks. We demonstrate that, as stress accumulates, more and more rings are co-opted in a growing web of deadlocks that entrap many other rings by threading, bringing the system to a standstill. The method ought to help the study of topological aging in more general polymer contexts.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Sorbonne Université CNRS, University of Padova
- Journal
- ACS Macro Letters
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 124-129
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 2161-1653
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00567
- Publication date
- 02-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103023 Polymer physics
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/topologybased-detection-and-tracking-of-deadlocks-reveal-aging-of-active-ring-melts(39b77b54-7f72-4418-a078-076642d8e8c1).html