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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 87, Issue 1, Pages 405-410Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2011.07.067
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Polyelectrolyte solution; Cationic dextran derivative; Intrinsic viscosity hydrodynamic; interaction parameter; Salt effect
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Viscosities of dilute polymer solutions were measured in capillary viscometers for samples varying in their fraction f of charged units from 0.00 to 0.90. The dependence of the logarithm of the relative viscosity on polymer concentration c is in all cases reproduced quantitatively by three characteristic parameters: [eta], the intrinsic viscosity: B, a viscometric interaction parameter (related to the Huggins constant); [eta](center dot) a parameter required only for polyelectrolytes at low concentrations of extra salt. In pure water increases more than 80 times as the fraction f rises from zero to 0.90 and [eta](center dot) starts from zero and goes up to approximate to 71 mL/g. Upon the addition of NaCl [eta] decreases by at least one order of magnitude (depending on the value off). The observed dependences of log [eta] on log c(salt) can be modeled quantitatively by Boltzmann sigmoids. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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