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JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 1091-1110Publisher
SOC RHEOLOGY
DOI: 10.1122/1.1498284
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This article describes experimental results for both the rheology and flow-induced orientation of a series of intercalated syndiotactic polypropylene nanocomposites which were prepared by melt intercalation in the presence or absence of an i-PP/maleic anhydride copolymer. The nanocomposites showed typical theological signatures of well-dispersed interacalated nanocomposites such as a low frequency plateau in dynamic moduli and an apparent yield transition from very high viscosity at low shear stresses to low viscosity above a yield stress. In situ x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements during shear provided direct evidence of rheology-microstructure links in these materials. It was found that the clay tactoids could be easily oriented by shear and that a high degree of orientation can be achieved after the yield transition. Further, the rheo-XRD apparatus allowed measurements of the relaxation of orientation upon the cessation of flow. The orientation relaxation time matched the characteristic relaxation times estimated from independent theological measurements well. (C) 2002 The Society of Rheology.
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