Electrical noise generated during capillary flow of aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) solutions

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-117
Author(s):  
C. Klason ◽  
J. Kubát ◽  
O. Quadrat ◽  
D. H. McQueen
2012 ◽  
Vol 531-532 ◽  
pp. 358-361
Author(s):  
Yin Chun Hu ◽  
Qiong Zhou ◽  
Cui Cui Dong ◽  
Li Shan Cui

We report a peculiar surface of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) film from droplet of water-PEO solution dried at heating substrate. The drying process contains two stages. The contact line is pinned initially. When substrate temperature reaches 60 °C, it starts to recede and continues to leave a film. The resulted film contains an edge-ring and middle-step surface profile. The rheological properties of PEO solution were studied. We found that capillary flow is dominant in the first drying stage and Marangoni flow appears because concentration gradient induced strong Marangoni effect and high temperature induced sharply decrease of viscous stress resulted in the contact line receding in the later drying stage. We confirm that the ringlike deposit is formed by outward capillary flow and the step in the middle is formed by Marangoni flow which carries solute to the inner, and these flows compete with the viscous force.


Author(s):  
C. E. Cluthe ◽  
G. G. Cocks

Aqueous solutions of a 1 weight-per cent poly (ethylene oxide) (PEO) were degassed under vacuum, transferred to a parallel plate viscometer under a nitrogen gas blanket, and exposed to Co60 gamma radiation. The Co60 source was rated at 4000 curies, and the dose ratewas 3.8x105 rads/hr. The poly (ethylene oxide) employed in the irradiations had an initial viscosity average molecular weight of 2.1 x 106.The solutions were gelled by a free radical reaction with dosages ranging from 5x104 rads to 4.8x106 rads.


2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 2019-2031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markéta Zukalová ◽  
Jiří Rathouský ◽  
Arnošt Zukal

A new procedure has been developed, which is based on homogeneous precipitation of organized mesoporous silica from an aqueous solution of sodium metasilicate and a nonionic poly(ethylene oxide) surfactant serving as a structure-directing agent. The decrease in pH, which induces the polycondensation of silica, is achieved by hydrolysis of ethyl acetate. Owing to the complexation of Na+ cations by poly(ethylene oxide) segments, assembling of the mesostructure appears to occur under electrostatic control by the S0Na+I- pathway, where S0 and I- are surfactant and inorganic species, respectively. As the complexation of Na+ cations causes extended conformation of poly(ethylene oxide) segments, the pore size and pore volume of organized mesoporous silica increase in comparison with materials prepared under neutral or acidic conditions. The assembling of particles can be fully separated from their solidification, which results in the formation of highly regular spherical particles of mesoporous silica.


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