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The rheological properties of sodium hyaluronate aqueous solutions are studied, and the effect of borax additives on them is investigated. It is shown that, at low concentrations, sodium hyaluronate behaves as a typical linear polyelectrolyte in the limit of a high concentration of the salt in both a 0.1 M NaCl aqueous solution and a salt-free solvent. The addition of 1 mole of borax per base-mole of the polymer to the solution of sodium hyaluronate significantly decreases the specific viscosity of the solution if no salt is added and has practically no effect on the viscosity of the solution in 0.1 M NaCl. The viscosity of a semidilute solution of sodium hyaluronate without the added salt decreases as the shear rate is increased in the range 1.5–656 s−1. With an increase in temperature, viscosity decreases and its dependence on shear rate becomes less pronounced. The same effect is exerted by small amounts of borax. The properties of salt-free solutions are explained by the presence of admixtures of low-molecular-mass ions in them that screen the Coulomb repulsion of charges linked to sodium hyaluronate chains, and the effect of borax may be rationalized by the screening effect of ions resulting from the hydrolysis of borax.
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Original Russian Text © S.A. Dubrovskii, A.N. Zelenetskii, S.A. Uspenskii, V.N. Khabarov, 2014, published in Vysokomolekulyarnye Soedineniya. Ser. A, 2014, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 206–212.
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Dubrovskii, S.A., Zelenetskii, A.N., Uspenskii, S.A. et al. Effect of borax additives on the rheological properties of sodium hyaluronate aqueous solutions. Polym. Sci. Ser. A 56, 205–210 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965545X14020047
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