Evolution of Viscoelasticity through Sol-Gel Transition of Polyacrylonitrile/Dimethylacetamide Solution : Power Law Relaxation observable with Characteristic Frequency Window

Physical state of cellulose in BmimCl: dependence of molar mass on viscoelasticity and sol-gel transition.

In this work, we investigated the correlation between the molar mass and the rheological properties of cellulose/1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (BmimCl) solutions, and provided the depolymerization kinetics of cellulose in BmimCl. Gel permeation chromatography was used to track the change in molar mass and kinetics as a function of the dissolution time. The molar mass of cellulose in Bmim...

Molecular Dynamics approach of sol–gel transition: Comparison with experiments

A new aggregation model by a Molecular Dynamics approach at constant temperature was compared with experimental results on a zirconia precursor gelling process. The evolution of the distribution of the experimental scattered intensities (small angle X-ray scattering curves), during gelling, was compared with the results of our Molecular Dynamics method, via the computation of structure factors ...

Flow birefringence at the sol-gel transition

2014 The information provided by a flow birefringence experiment at the sol-gel transition in the sol phase is discussed There are two competing effects : cluster rotations, and cluster elastic deformation. In a steady state, rotational effects turn out to be dominant. For small velocity gradients S we predict an extinction angle x such that 03C0/4 x diverges with an exponent roughly equal to 3...

Viscoelastic Properties for Sol-Gel Transition

Two Simple Approaches to Sol-Gel Transition

We represent a theory of polymer gelation as an analogue of liquid-glass transition in which elastic fields of stress and strain shear components appear spontaneously as a consequence of the cross-linking of macromolecules. This circumstance is explained on the basis of obvious combinatoric arguments as well as a synergetic Lorenz system, where the strain acts as an order parameter, a conjugate...