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  • Title: Spatial regimes in the dynamics of polyolefins: collective motion.
    Author: Neelakantan A, Maranas JK.
    Journal: J Chem Phys; 2004 Jan 15; 120(3):1617-26. PubMed ID: 15268289.
    Abstract:
    Molecular simulation is used to characterize the spatial dependence of collective motion in four saturated hydrocarbon polymers. The observable is the distinct intermediate scattering function, as measured in coherent quasielastic neutron scattering experiments. Ranges of 0.01-1000 ps in time and 2-14 A in spatial scale are covered. In this time range, a two-step relaxation, consisting of a fast exponential decay and a slower stretched decay, is observed for all spatial scales. The relaxation times for the fast process are very similar to those obtained by following self motion, with a small modulation of relaxation times near the peak in the static structure factor which is well described by the narrowing picture suggested by de Gennes. For the slow process, self and collective relaxation times have larger numerical differences and follow different scaling with spatial scale. The modulation of slow relaxation times is larger than that observed for the fast process, but is overestimated by the de Gennes prediction, which only works qualitatively.
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