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Rheological Properties of Poly(acrylic acid) Complexes with Poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) in Semidilute Aqueous Solutions

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Solutions of poly(acrylic acid) mixtures with poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) in water and in decimolar hydrochloric acid are studied by potentiometry, viscometry, and rotational rheometry. It is shown that, in a wide range of mixture compositions, thermosensitive polyelectrolyte complexes are formed via ion–dipole interactions of functional groups of polymers. The formation of complexes in the semidilute solution regime is accompanied by a significant increase in viscosity as compared with solutions of the initial polymers, which makes it possible to obtain systems with high viscosity without using large concentrations of polyelectrolytes. The dependence of viscosity on the composition of the mixture passes through a maximum corresponding to the most complete binding of the components of the complex, and the position of the maximum does not depend on the molecular weight of poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) and is determined by the ratio of the concentrations of the functional groups of the polymers. The frequency dependences of the storage modulus and the loss modulus demonstrate that the system experiences strong structuring in the process of complex formation.

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Litmanovich, E.A., Efremov, V.V. Rheological Properties of Poly(acrylic acid) Complexes with Poly(sodium styrenesulfonate) in Semidilute Aqueous Solutions. Polym. Sci. Ser. A 61, 743–753 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965545X19060051

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