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Scaling Behaviour of the Viscoelastic Properties of a Biopolymer System Near the Gel Point

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

M. A. V. Axelos
Affiliation:
Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Macromolécules, BP 527, 44026 Nantes Cedex 03, France.
M. Kolb
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, Cedex 07, France.
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Abstract

Rheological measurements have been performed on pectin-calcium systems close to the sol-gel transition. Two different experimental setups - steady state and oscillatory shear measurements - show scaling of the viscoelastic properties. The results of both types of measurements are consistent with each other and with scalar percolation theory.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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