POLYELECTROLYTE MOLECULE IN AN ELONGATIONAL FLOW

被引:6
作者
DARINSKII, AA
BORISOV, OV
机构
[1] Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
[2] Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Institut für Physik, Mainz
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1995年 / 29卷 / 05期
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10.1209/0295-5075/29/5/003
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The theory describing the stretching of a weakly charged polyelectrolyte molecule by elongational shear flow is developed. It is shown that for a polyelectrolyte immersed in a salt-added solution two critical values of shear flow gradient exist: the lower critical point corresponds to the chain stretching on the scale of superblobs of size equal to the Debye screening length and the upper critical point corresponds to the complete stretching of the chain on the scale of monomer units.
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