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The viscosity-radius relationship from scaling arguments

Soft Condensed Matter 2017-10-03 v1

Abstract

The viscosity-radius relationship for semi-dilute polymer solutions is derived using scaling arguments. The viscosity temperature and the temperature radius relationships are combined using the transitive equality relationship. The viscosity-radius relationship is determined to be . The reduced viscosity observed with both increasing temperature and increasing shear rate then results from a reduction in coil radius.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00277,
  title  = {The viscosity-radius relationship from scaling arguments},
  author = {Dave E. Dunstan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00277},
  year   = {2017}
}

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