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Rheology of gelating systems

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Two different types of physical gels — thermoreversible gels based on ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene and thixotropic ones based on cysteine and silver nitrate — have been investigated using viscosimetric methods. Structural methods (IR and Raman spectroscopy and dynamic light scattering) have been used in interpretation of the rheological data obtained.

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  1. Tver’ State University, 35 Sadovyi Lane, Tver’, 170002, Russia

    P. M. Pakhomov, S. D. Khiznyak, M. M. Ovchinnikov, M. V. Lavrienko & I. V. Malakhaev

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 118–122, September–October, 2005.

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Pakhomov, P.M., Khiznyak, S.D., Ovchinnikov, M.M. et al. Rheology of gelating systems. J Eng Phys Thermophys 78, 958–962 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-006-0018-0

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