The extensional viscosity is an important rheological characteristic of polymer melts. It is however not as frequently reported on as the shear viscosity. The extensional viscosity is of special interest when considering polymeric materials for foaming and film blowing processes. Here, the extensional (and shear) viscosity along with the melt strength and the tensile properties of the correspon...

common complication in IgG myeloma. Its occurrence has been ascribed to the presence in the serum of high molecular weight polymers of the IgG proteins. Three patients with IgG myeloma and the clinical hyperviscosity syndrome were investigated, none of whom had IgG polymers in the serum by analytical ultracentrifugation. Relative serum viscosity in these patients ranged from 10 to 17.4 (normal ...

Polyurethanes and polyurethane-ureas were prepared by the reaction of diethylene glycol and polyethylene glycol with excess of aromatic and aliphatic diisocyanate to yield isocyanate terminated prepolymers which were subsequently reacted with diols and diamines. These polymers were characterized by IR, 1HNMR spectra, viscosity measurements and thermogravimetric analysis.

We present systematic, unique linear and nonlinear shear rheology data of an experimentally pure ring polystyrene and its linear precursor. This polymer was synthesized anionically and characterized by interaction chromatography and fractionation at the critical condition. Its weight-average molar mass is 84 kg/mol; i.e., it is marginally entangled (entanglement number Z ≈ 5). Its linear viscoe...

2014 The viscosity of randomly branched polymers has been calculated based on an interpolation formula by Marrinan and Hermans, which contains dependent on certain constants both the so called excluded-volumeeffect and the free-draining limit. Closer inspection of the constants used shows that the first choice is better direct near the gel point and yields a logarithmic divergence of the viscos...

synthetic water soluble acrylamide-based polymers have wide range of ap-plications  in  the  feld  of  soil  establishment  and  non-desertifcation.  in  this research, the acrylamide-based anionic polyelectrolytes were prepared by  solution polymerization. the polymerization was carried out using aibn as a radical initiator and at different degrees of anionic charges ranging between 10% and 30...