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Structure–rheology relationship in complex quaternized polysulfones/solvent/nonsolvent systems

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Polymer chains consisting of water-soluble polysulfones with various amounts of ionic chlorine have been prepared via the quaternization reaction of chloromethylated polysulfones with N,N-dimethylethanolamine. Rheological investigations have reflected the importance of electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, and association phenomena from the ternary systems consisting of a proton-acceptor polymer (polysulfones with different ionic chlorine content), a proton-donor solvent (N,N-dimethylformamide), and a proton-donor solvent (methanol). The specific interactions, the polyelectrolyte effect induced by enhanced dissociation of the ionizable groups and mixed solvents’ quality modify the rheological functions, i.e., dynamic viscosity, elastic shear modulus and viscous shear modulus, as well as the thermodynamic parameters obtained from the rheological properties, such as apparent energy of activation and flow activation entropy. These results were correlated with the surface properties of the polysulfonic films formed from solutions in solvent/nonsolvent mixtures.

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Filimon, A., Avram, E. & Ioan, S. Structure–rheology relationship in complex quaternized polysulfones/solvent/nonsolvent systems. Polym. Bull. 70, 1835–1851 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-012-0874-z

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