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Transient rheological probing of PIB/hectorite-nanocomposites  

Sung, Jun-Hee (Department of Chemical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Mewis, Jan (Department of Chemical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Moldenaers, Paula (Department of Chemical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
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Korea-Australia Rheology Journal / v.20, no.1, 2008 , pp. 27-34 More about this Journal
Abstract
Clay suspensions in liquid polymers exhibit a time-dependent behaviour that includes viscoelastic as well as thixotropic features. Because of the presence of interacting clay platelets, particulate networks can develop, which are broken down during flow and rebuild upon cessation of the flow. Here, the use of thixotropic techniques in probing flow-induced structures in nanocomposites is explored with data on a hectorite-poly(isobutylene) model system. By means of fast stress jump measurements the hydrodynamic contributions to the steady state stresses are determined as well as those caused by the stretching of the clay floes. Flow reversal measurements do not provide a clear indication of flow-induced anisotropy in the present case. The recovery of the clay microstructure upon cessation of flow is followed by means of overshoot and dynamic measurements. The development of a particulate network is detected by the appearance and growth of a low frequency plateau of the storage moduli. The modulus-frequency curves after various rest times collapse onto universal master curves, regardless of the pre-shear history or temperature. The scaling factors for this master curve are the crossover parameters. The crossover moduli are nearly a linear function of the crossover frequency, the relation being identical for recovery after shearing at different shear rates. This function depends, however, on temperature.
Keywords
clay suspension; nanocomposite; thixotropy; stress jumps; scaling function;
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