
Microrheology of polyethylene oxide using diffusing wave spectroscopy and single scattering.

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The high-frequency characteristic of QCM-D makes it possible to directly study the viscoelasticity of polymer solutions in a low-viscosity solvent, which is complementary to conventional rheometers working at low frequency.įerry JD. The solvent quality gradually worsened for PEG with increasing K 2SO 4 concentration, which was verified by decreases in the polymer intrinsic viscosity and the corresponding Mark–Houwink exponent. With increasing K 2SO 4 concentration, the excluded volume exponent ν of PEG decreased from 0.565 in water to 0.55 in 0.19 mol/L K 2SO 4, and 0.50 in 0.43 mol/L K 2SO 4. The obtained viscoelastic properties of PEG in K 2SO 4 solutions agree well with the Zimm model predictions for linear polymer chains.

The viscoelasticity of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) in aqueous solutions with different concentrations of potassium sulfate (K 2SO 4) was studied by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D), after coating a rigid supported lipid bilayer of 1,2-dioleoyl- sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine on the silicon oxide substrate.
