Rheological characterization in shear of a model dumbbell polymer concentrated solution

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 50, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 491-501

  Stadler, Florian J ^a,b   Rajan, Merina ^c,e   Agarwal, Uday S ^c,f   Liu, Chen Yang ^a,g   George, K E ^d   Lemstra, Piet J ^c   Bailly, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Physics   (India)

^e Eindhoven Polymer Laboratories Dutch   (Netherlands)

^f RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED   (India)

^g INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Dumbbell; Intermolecular friction; Solution; Spectrum; Start up flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255137471     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-011-0557-y     Document Type: Article

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