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RHEOLOGICA ACTA
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 23-29Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s003970000131
Keywords
xanthan; gelation; linear viscoelastic
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A large body of literature is focused on the accurate determination of a gel point for systems undergoing a sol-gel phase transition. Investigation into the limiting strain and stress for linear viscoelastic behaviour at various stages of a phase transition such as gelation is a subject that is rarely commented on. The small amplitude oscillatory rheological behaviour of a biopolymer cross-linker system through a thermally activated sol-gel transition is presented. Mechanical spectra were interpreted through application of the gelation criteria of Chambon and Winter (Winter and Chambon 1986, Chambon and Winter 1987), where the (so-called gel strength) parameter S, and relaxation exponent, n are obtained. A detailed study of the limit of linear viscoelasticity yields important trends in critical stress (sigma (o)(c)) and critical strain (gamma (o)(c)) limits highlighting the possible experimental difficulties associated with mechanical measurements obtained in close proximity to the gel point.
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