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- Uematsu, Takashi, 1968, et al.
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Power Laws in Polymer Solution Dynamics
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Ingår i: Physical Review E. - 1550-2376. ; 68:5, s. 051803-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The dynamical screening length xi(h) in semidilute to highly concentrated polymer solutions of poly(methyl methacrylate) in propylene carbonate has been examined using photon correlation spectroscopy and pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance. A crossover between different concentration dependent regimes, xi(h)similar tophi(-alpha), where alpha is found to be approximate to0.5, approximate to1, and approximate to2, is observed when the local viscosity is taken into account. Here phi is the volume fraction of polymer in the solution. Well-defined crossovers between alpha=0.5 and alpha=1 corresponding to a transition from a marginal solvent to a theta solvent behavior have been predicted to occur due to the reduction of excluded-volume effects between the spatially correlated polymer segments with increasing polymer volume fraction. However, a clear experimental validation of the crossover has never been presented before. The third regime (alphaapproximate to2) is observed in the highly concentrated region where the static screening length is comparable to the persistence length of the polymer. The observation indicates that the rigid rod model previously used to describe concentrated solutions is an oversimplification valid only in the very high concentration limit. The obtained results at high concentrations are discussed in the frame of a simple physical model where segments at the persistence length scale are treated as flexible rodlike segments.
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- Groth, Cecilia, 1972, et al.
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Diffusion of water in multilamellar vesicles of dialkyl and dialkyl ester ammonium surfactants
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Ingår i: Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. - 1873-4359 .- 0927-7757. ; 228:1-3, s. 64-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The NMR self-diffusion technique is used for measuring diffusion of water in highly concentrated multilamellar vesicle solutions. The signal intensity of water, i.e. the water echo-decay, is monitored down to very small intensities thus providing an accurate measure of how water is diffusing in the solution. It is noted that a large curvature is dominating the functional form of the echo-decay indicating the presence of a large number of multilamellar vesicles. It is also concluded that in order to measure accurately the volume fraction of water inside and outside vesicles the experimental time scale can be changed. From a multiexponential fit to the echo-decay the fraction fast and the sum of all slow components can be extracted. When the apparent fraction "vesicle water", P-vw(app), is plotted versus the experimental time scale the graph produced is a good representation of the difference in how fast water diffuses over the different vesicle membranes. From an extrapolation to "zero time" the true fraction of trapped water can be extracted, i.e. a quantitative measure of the volume fraction of vesicles at a certain concentration of surfactant.
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