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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 116, Issue 6, Pages 3525-3533Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.31885
Keywords
molecular weight distribution/molar; rheology; viscosity; viscoelastic properties
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- FAPESP
- CNPq
- CAPES
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In this work, the main factors affecting the rheological behavior of polyethylene terephtalate (PET) in the linear viscoelastic regime (water content, time delay before test, duration of experiment, and temperature) were accessed. Small amplitude oscillatory shear tests were performed after different time delays ranging from 300 to 5000 s for samples with water contents ranging from 0.02 to 0.45 wt %. Time sweep tests were carried out for different durations to explain the changes undergone by PET before and during small amplitude oscillatory shear measurements. Immediately after the time sweep tests, the PET samples were removed from the rheometer, analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry and their molar mass was obtained by viscometry analysis. It was shown that for all the samples, the delay before test and residence time within the rheometer (i.e. duration of experiment) result in structural changes of the PET samples, such as increase or decrease of molar mass, broadening of molar mass distribution, and branching phenomena. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 116: 3525-3533, 2010
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