Rheological properties of poly(vinyl chloride)/plasticizer systems—relation between sol–gel transition and elongational viscosity
Rheological properties of poly(vinyl chloride)/plasticizer systems—relation between sol–gel transition and elongational viscosity
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DOI:
10.1007/s00397-007-0178-7
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发表时间:
2007-03
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2.3
通讯作者:
M. Sugimoto;Hirokazu Hida;T. Taniguchi;K. Koyama;Y. Aoki
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作者:
M. Sugimoto;Hirokazu Hida;T. Taniguchi;K. Koyama;Y. Aoki
Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC)/di-isononyl phthalate systems with PVC content of 45.5 (PVC8) and 70.4 wt% (PVC6) were prepared by a hot roller at 150 °C and press molded at 180 °C. The dynamic viscoelasticity and elongational viscosity of PVC8 and PVC6 were measured in the temperature range from 150 to 220 °C. We have found that the storage and loss shear moduli,G′ andG″, of PVC8 and PVC6 exhibited the power-law dependence on the angular frequencyωat 190 and 210 °C, respectively. Correspondingly, the tanδvalues did not depend onω. These temperatures indicate the critical gel temperatureTgelof each system. The critical relaxation exponentnobtained from these data was 0.75 irrespective of PVC content, which was in agreement with thenvalues reported previously for the low PVC concentration samples. These results suggest that the PVC gels of different plasticizer content have a similar fractal structure. BelowTgel, the gradual melting of the PVC crystallites takes place with elevating temperature, and aboveTgel, a densely connected network throughout the whole system disappears. Correspondingly, the elongational viscosity behavior of PVC8 and PVC6 exhibited strong strain hardening belowTgel, although it did not show any strain hardening aboveTgel. These changes in rheological behavior are attributed to the gradual melting of the PVC crystallites worked as the cross-linking domains in this physical gel, thereby inapplicability of the of time–temperature superposition for PVC/plasticizer systems.