Polymer Rheology

From reactor to rheology in industrial polymers

This article reviews current efforts towards quantitative prediction of rheological properties of industrial polymer resins, based upon their polydisperse branched molecular structure. This involves both an understanding of how reactor and reaction conditions influence the distribution of chain lengths and branch placement (which is the province of reactor engineering) and an understanding of h...

Simple Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics Applications to Polymer Rheology (As it appeared on: RHEOLOGY REVIEWS 2003, The British Society of Rheology (publisher), 37-75)

We review here recent developments in nonequilibrium thermodynamics and their applications to rheology. In particular we review the application of the dissipative Hamiltonian formalism to incompressible, homogeneous and isothermal flows of flexible polymer systems. We show not only the advantages that have been brought up by the nonequilibrium thermodynamics approach but also exactly where the ...

Structure of Sodium Carboxymethyl Cellulose Aqueous Solutions: A SANS and Rheology Study

We report a small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and rheology study of cellulose derivative polyelectrolyte sodium carboxymethyl cellulose with a degree of substitution of 1.2. Using SANS, we establish that this polymer is molecularly dissolved in water with a locally stiff conformation with a stretching parameter[Formula: see text]. We determine the cross sectional radius of the chain ([Formu...

Polymer Rheology by Dielectric Spectroscopy

Polymer Rheology: Principles, Techniques and Applications

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Relationship between morphology and rheology of immiscible polymer blends