Critical behavior of the specific viscosity of poly(vinyl alcohol) solutions near the gelation threshold

✍ Scribed by Toshikazu Takigawa; Kenji Urayama; Toshiro Masuda

• Book ID: 103025425
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 262 KB
• Volume: 174
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(90)85342-a

✦ Synopsis

The critical exponent of the specific viscosity, near the sol-gel transition point was examined for poly(viny1 alcohol) solutions and found to be 1.67. This value is larger than those reported previously for various polymerizing systems, and for a gelatin