ORDERING PHENOMENA OF POLYMERIC CLUSTERS NEAR THE SOL-GEL TRANSITION - LIGHT-SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS

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作者
DAHMANI, M [1 ]
SKOURI, M [1 ]
GUENET, JM [1 ]
MUNCH, JP [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CADI AYYAD, FAC SCI SEMLALIA, MARRAKECH, MOROCCO
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 1994年 / 26卷 / 01期
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10.1209/0295-5075/26/1/004
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Light scattering has been performed on solutions of polymeric clusters of poly(vinyl chloride) near the sol-gel transition where a peak in the scattering function is observed. This effect is analysed here in terms of a liquidlike order of polydisperse clusters. Clusters distributions were quenched to T = 20-degrees-C for solutions prepared at high temperature at different concentrations PHI(Q) below the critical gelation concentration PHI(Q)*. For a system diluted after quenching, the weight average molecular weight M(w)(PHI(Q)) and the peak position q* are shown to scale as M(w) is-proportional-to R(z)1.6 +/- 0.1 and q* is-proportional-to PHI-1/3 M(w)1/3, respectively in which R(z)(PHI(Q)) is the z-average radius of gyration and PHI(PHI(Q)) is the polymer volume fraction.
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