화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol.38, No.11, 1539-1546, 2000
Unimodal molecular weight distribution of commercial polymers from viscoelastic data
This article presents a method that provides the molecular weight distribution (MWD) of polymeric material from rheological data. The technique has been developed to deal with linear polymers with a log-normal molecular weight distribution. The rheological data must include the shear storage modulus, G'(omega), and the shear loss modulus, G " (omega), ranging from the terminal zone to the rubberlike zone. It was not necessary to achieve the relaxation spectrums via the extremely unstable problem of inverting integral equations. The method has been tested with different polymers (polydimethylsiloxane, polyisoprene, random copolymer of ethylene and propylene, and polystyrene) and the calculated MWDs were in good agreement with experimental data.