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1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA.
Abstract:
The oscillatory rheology of one rodlike and one semiflexible xanthan sample has been investigated as a function of temperature in the range of xanthan concentrations where the polymer forms a lyotropic liquid crystalline phase in aqueous NaCl solutions. Readily observed changes in the rheological observables at temperatures corresponding to phase boundaries permit construction of the biphasic chimney region of the temperature-composition phase diagram. The chimney region leans toward larger values of the polymer concentration with increasing temperature, presumably as a consequence of a reduction in the effective axial ratio of the helical polymer with increasing temperature. The results permit construction of plots of the rheological observables as a function of polymer concentration at temperatures T in the range 20
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