Xiuying Zhao

Interpenetrating Elastomers for High-Fidelity Shape Recovery and Broad Temperature Energy Dissipation

The design of elastomers integrating high-fidelity shape memory behavior with broad-temperature energy dissipation remains a fundamental challenge due to the intrinsic trade-off between network rigidity and segmental mobility. Here, an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) strat...

Differential Coupling of Nanoparticle Translational and Rotational Diffusion to Polymer Relaxation Modes in Unentangled Polymer Melts

Abstract The diffusion of spherical nanoparticles (NPs) in unentangled polymer melts is investigated using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. We show that for both translational and rotational diffusion, when the NP diameter d is smaller than a characteristic length l...