Jamming concepts in cold polymeric glasses.
The purpose of the present paper is to propose an idea to construct the volume function W for polymer glasses and calculate the volume of polymer glasses as a function of the compactivity X utilizing a statistical-mechanical method developed for semiflexible polymers. We also discuss the analogue for glasses of "tapping" experiments which show the validity of statistical mechanics and the entropy concept in powders.
Koga
Tsuyoshi
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Polymers and Colloids Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
Edwards
Sam F
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