Rheological properties, of melts

Indeed, one often observes a more or less direct relationship between the rheological properties of melts and the mechanical strength of the condensed material. This is a commonplace statement in regard of, say, stiffness, since the equations relating the viscosity of heterogeneous materials with their composition... 

Rheological properties of melts and the structures of extruded foods are affected by several factors and particularly by processing and storage pressure and temperature. Rheological properties of the resultant glassy materials are in large part governed by... 

Potschke, P., Abdel-Goad, M., Pegel, S Jehnichen, D., Mark, J.E., Zhou, D., and Heinrich, G. (2009) Comparisons among electrical and rheological properties of melt-mixed composites containing various carbon nanostructures. J. Macromol. Sci. A, 47, 12-19. 

There are few data on rheological properties of melts of filled alloys. It was shown that the main features of the rheological behavior of filled alloy PVA-EVC can be related to the formation of the structural network formed by filler particles. For the production of fdled polymer alloy, it is important to use the effect of substantial decrease of melt viscosity by addition of a small amormt of one component to another. Due to a sharp decrease of viscosity in a definite concentration region, it becomes possible to introduce larger amounts of filler, compared with pure components. 

Syndiotactic polybutadiene was fkst made by Natta in 1955 (28) with a melting point of 154°C. Syndiotactic polybutadiene [31567-90-5] can be prepared with various melting points depending on its vinyl content and degree of crystallinity. The physical, mechanical, and rheological properties of the polymer are gready affected by these parameters. 

The manifestation of rheological properties of filled polymer melts is a combination... 

Some of these questions have strict and unambiguous answers, in a mathematical model, to other answers are derived from extensive empirical material. The present paper will discuss the problems formulated above, but concerning only rheological properties of filled polymer melts, leaving out the discussion of specific hydrodynamic effects occurring during their flow in channels of different geometrical form. 

First. The problem of a limit of linearity has assumed a certain importance for investigating dynamic properties of filled polymers [4, 5], Even for very small (from the point of view of measuring rheological properties of pure polymer melts) amplitudes of deformation, the values of a modulus depend on the amplitude. 

The fact that the appearance of a wall slip at sufficiently high shear rates is a property inwardly inherent in filled polymers or an external manifestation of these properties may be discussed, but obviously, the role of this effect during the flow of compositions with a disperse filler is great. The wall slip, beginning in the region of high shear rates, was marked many times as the effect that must be taken into account in the analysis of rheological properties of filled polymer melts [24, 25], and the appearance of a slip is initiated in the entry (transitional) zone of the channel [26]. It is quite possible that in reality not a true wall slip takes place, but the formation of a low-viscosity wall layer depleted of a filler. This is most characteristic for the systems with low-viscosity binders. From the point of view of hydrodynamics, an exact mechanism of motion of a material near the wall is immaterial, since in any case it appears as a wall slip. 

The rheological properties of insitu polymerized nanocomposites with end-tethered polymer chains were first described by Krisnamoorti and Giannelis [33]. The flow behavior of PCL- and Nylon 6-based nanocomposites differed extremely from that of the corresponding neat matrices, whereas the thermorheological properties of the nanocomposites were entirely determined by the behavior of the matrices [33]. The slope of G (co) and G"(co) versus flxco is much smaller than 2 and 1, respectively. Values of 2 and 1 are expected for linear mono-dispersed polymer melts, and the large deviation, especially in the presence of a very small amount of layered silicate loading, may be due to the formation of a network structure in the molten... 

Similarly, one frequent prerequisite is that the pigments used have little or no effect on the physical and mechanical properties of the plastic. One example here is the change in rheological properties of PVC plastisols or of PVC melts during processing. 

Rheological properties of filled polymers can be characterised by the same parameters as any fluid medium, including shear viscosity and its interdependence with applied shear stress and shear rate elongational viscosity under conditions of uniaxial extension and real and imaginary components of a complex dynamic modulus which depend on applied frequency [1]. The presence of fillers in viscoelastic polymers is generally considered to reduce melt elasticity and hence influence dependent phenomena such as die swell [2]. 

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