Transient stresses and morphology of immiscible polymer blends under varying shear flow

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 326, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 175-183

  Chen, Quan ^a   Yu, Wei ^a   Zhou, Chixing ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breakup; Polymer blends; Thixotropy; Transient stress

Indexed keywords

BUTENES; DROP BREAKUP; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; FLUID MECHANICS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; TESTING;

EVOLUTION (CO); IMMISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; ISOBUTYLENE (IB); MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONS; PALIERNE MODEL; POLY-DIMETHYL SILOXANE (PDMS); RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; SHEAR RATES; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); TIME SCALING; TRANSIENT STRESSES; VISCOELASTIC MEASUREMENTS;

SHEAR STRENGTH;

ISOBUTYLENE; SILOXANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRESS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FLOW KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRENGTH; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 48749132795     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2008.05.039     Document Type: Article

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