摘要
By dynamic viscoelastic measurement for PNIPAM/water solution it has been found that below the phase separation temperature (about 32 ℃), the system is homogeneous fluid; while upon being heated to about 32 ℃, the solution undergoes phase separation and the storage modulus G’ increases sharply and exceeds the loss modulus G', indicating the physical network formation during the phase separation. Based on the percolation model, the gel points Tgel, were obtained by applying the dynamic scaling theory (DST) and winter’s criterion. The critical exponent n was also obtained to be 0.79 through DST, which is different from 0.67, the critical point of chemically crosslinked network predicted through DST. The obtained n value reflects the special property of physical network being different from chemical network.
By dynamic viscoelastic measurement for PNIPAM/water solution it has been found that below the phase separation temperature (about 32°C), the system is homogeneous fluid; while upon being heated to about 32°C, the solution undergoes phase separation and the storage modulus G’ increases sharply and exceeds the loss modulus G”, indicating the physical network formation during the phase separation. Based on the percolation model, the gel points Tgel were obtained by applying the dynamic scaling theory (DST) and Winter’s criterion. The critical exponent n was also obtained to be 0.79 through DST, which is different from 0.67, the critical point of chemically crosslinked network predicted through DST. The obtained n value reflects the special property of physical network being different from chemical network.
