Fig. 5. Structural correlations and viscosity-inaccessible volume relationship in PNCs.

a Monomer density profiles from the surface of a NP for SN, NR₄ and TP₄ filled PNCs. b Monomer-monomer pair-correlation function for SN, NR₄, and TP₄ filled PNCs. c Monomer density profiles from the center of a TP for varying arm lengths. d Viscosity ratio ($\frac{\eta }{{\eta }_0}$) calculated from melt rheology experiments (open triangles), dewetting experiments (closed diamonds) and MD simulations (closed hexagons) as a function of normalized inaccessible volume (V *). All green symbols denotes TP₅, all pink symbols denotes TP₁₁ and all blue symbols denotes TP₁₄. All black hexagons are results extracted from MD simulations. The black dotted line denotes viscosity ratio $\frac{\eta }{{\eta }_0}$ = 1. The black solid line indicates a scaling of $\frac{\eta }{{\eta }_0}~{\left(V^{*}\right)}^{-0.2}$. The error bars in the figure represent the standard deviation of the data.