The Influence of Water and Solvent Uptake on Functional Properties of Shape-Memory Polymers

Figure 9

Results of MD simulations on versus the concentration of small molecules, which diffuse into a polymer melt. The polymer melt is modelled here as a coarse-grained linear chain. The small molecules are spherical Lennard-Jones (LJ) particles. Despite the generic feature of the model, the qualitative trend observed here is in agreement with experiments [41]. Results from calculations performed on three independent packing models.