Affiliation:
1. Polymat Institute, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48013 Donostia-San Sebastian, Euskadi, Spain
Abstract
Staudinger taught us that macromolecules were made up of covalently bonded monomer repeat units chaining up as polymer chains. This paradigm is not challenged in this paper. The main question raised in polymer physics remains: how do these long chains interact and move as a group when submitted to shear deformation at high temperature when they are viscous liquids? The current consensus is that we need to distinguish two cases: the deformation of “un-entangled chains” for macromolecules with molecular weight, M, smaller than Me, “the entanglement molecular weight”, and the deformation of “entangled” chains for M > Me. The current paradigm stipulates that the properties of polymers derive from the statistical characteristics of the macromolecule itself, the designated statistical system that defines the thermodynamic state of the polymer. The current paradigm claims that the viscoelasticity of un-entangled melts is well described by the Rouse model and that the entanglement issues raised when M > Me, are well understood by the reptation model introduced by de Gennes and colleagues. Both models can be classified in the category of “chain dynamics statistics”. In this paper, we examine in detail the failures and the current challenges facing the current paradigm of polymer rheology: the Rouse model for un-entangled melts, the reptation model for entangled melts, the time–temperature superposition principle, the strain-induced time dependence of viscosity, shear-refinement and sustained-orientation. The basic failure of the current paradigm and its inherent inability to fully describe the experimental reality is documented in this paper. In the discussion and conclusion sections of the paper, we suggest that a different solution to explain the viscoelasticity of polymer chains and of their “entanglement” is needed. This requires a change in paradigm to describe the dynamics of the interactions within the chains and across the chains. A brief description of our currently proposed open dissipative statistical approach, “the Grain-Field Statistics”, is presented.
Subject
Polymers and Plastics,General Chemistry
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