Crossover behavior in the viscosity of semiflexible polymers: Solutions of sodium hyaluronate as a function of concentration, molecular weight, and temperature
作者:
M. Milas,
I. Roure,
G. C. Berry,
期刊:
Journal of Rheology
(AIP Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 40,
issue 6
页码: 1155-1166
ISSN:0148-6055
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1122/1.550778
出版商: The Society of Rheology
关键词: Semiflexible polymers, viscosity;Crossover behavior;Excluded volume;Screening;Hyaluronate
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Viscometric data on moderately concentrated solutions of the semiflexible macromolecule sodium hyaluronate over a range of molecular weightMand solute concentrationcin aqueous 0.1MNaCl are analyzed using a generalized expression for the viscosity of isotropic polymers and their solutions. Owing to its semiflexible nature, the effects of excluded volume interactions are effectively screened for sodium hyaluronate under the conditions studied, and intramolecular hydrodynamic interactions are largely screened, even at infinite dilution. The consequences of this for scaling of the viscosity relative of solutions of sodium hyaluronate with the parametersc[η] andcMis discussed. The dependence of the viscosity oncMis in accord with the generalized relation, and leads to an estimate for the persistence length in reasonable accord with that found by light scattering measurements on dilute solutions. The temperature dependence of the viscosity suggests that the dependence of the persistence length on temperature may be partially suppressed with increasing polymer concentration.
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