Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation of a polymer network strained to failure. The solvent is not shown, and the polymer strands are colored according to their stress; green strands are relaxed, and dark red strands are about to fail. (VIDEO)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation of a polymer network strained to failure. The solvent is not shown, and the polymer strands are colored according to their stress; green strands are relaxed, and dark red strands are about to fail.

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Ziyu Ye and Robert Riggleman at University of Pennsylvania

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