Nihon Reoroji Gakkaishi
Online ISSN : 2186-4586
Print ISSN : 0387-1533
ISSN-L : 0387-1533
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Viscoelastic Properties of Poly(vinyl chloride) Gels: Effect of Plasticizer Type
Munetaka KakiuchiYuji AokiHiroshi WatanabeKunihiro Osaki
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2001 Volume 29 Issue 1 Pages 53-59

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Viscoelastic behavior of PVC gels/sols in a wide range of PVC concentration c was examined in various plasticizers having different solubility toward PVC. The gel point c g decreased with decreasing solubility, possibly due to enhanced formation of PVC crystallites (crosslinking points in the gels) in poorer plasticizers. The exponent characterizing the power-law behavior of the critical gel (G'~G''~ωn), n = 0.75, was insensitive to the plasticizer solubility. The exponent z (= 2.52 ± 0.14), characterizing the equilibrium modulus Ge of the well developed gels (Gez with ε =|c - cg |/cg) was also insensitive to the plasticizer solubility. However, the magnitude of the normalized modulus c-1Ge was smaller in poor plasticizers, suggesting some heterogeneity in the gel network structure therein. The other exponent γ characterizing the viscosity η of the sols (η~ εγ) moderately increases from 1.2 to 1.9 with increasing solubility. Comparison of the normalized viscosity and compliance in different plasticizers suggested that the sol structure was heterogeneous and this heterogeneity sensitively increased with decreasing solubility.

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© 2001 The Society of Rheology, Japan
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