Motional coherency in chain dynamics of polybutadiene studied by molecular dynamics simulations

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• 作者：Kazuhiro Takemura ; Hidemine Furuya and Toshiji Kanaya
• 关键词：Polybutadiene ; Molecular dynamics simulation ; de Gennes narrowing
• 刊名：Polymer
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：26 July 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：47
• 期：16
• 页码：5973-5978
• 全文大小：494 K

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Molecular dynamics simulations of 1,4-polybutadiene in bulk amorphous state were performed. Results were compared with the recent neutron spin-echo measurements. To investigate motional coherency the relaxation rates for the collective and self-motions, the collective and self-relaxation rates, were evaluated for the short and long time regimes of the normalized intermediate scattering functions. The scattering vector dependence of the collective relaxation rates estimated for both fast and slow processes indicated a minimum at scattering vector q = 1.5 Å⁻¹, corresponding to the position of a peak in the static structure factor. The self-relaxation rates increased monotonously with q. A phenomenon known as de Gennes narrowing was reproduced well in the simulation and found to be originated from the inter-molecular correlation. The collective relaxation rate evaluated for fast process appeared to modulate around a peak of q = 2.9 Å⁻¹, corresponding to the intra-molecular correlation.