Rheology of associative polymer solutions

Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-26

  Chassenieux, Christophe ^a   Nicolai, Taco ^a   Benyahia, Lazhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; Elasticity; Gel; Jamming; Transient network; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SOLVOPHOBIC; SPHERICAL DOMAIN; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; TELECHELIC POLYMERS; TRANSIENT NETWORK;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ELASTICITY; GELS; JAMMING; VISCOSITY;

RHEOLOGY;

COPOLYMER; POLYMER;

CROSS LINKING; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; REVIEW; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 78751704989     PISSN: 13590294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2010.07.007     Document Type: Review

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