Monte Carlo studies of polymer network formation

Abstract

We are presenting a lattice Monte Carlo study of the formation of polymer networks using the bond fluctuating method. Starting from a pure polymer melt (chain length N=50, density Φ=0.3) and two component polymer mixtures (A:B=1:1), we get simple two component or interpenetrated polymer networks. The time evolution of the building process, the static structure factor, and the topology of the network are presented in dependence of the cross‐link density.