화학공학소재연구정보센터
Langmuir, Vol.25, No.20, 12066-12072, 2009
Relaxation Processes of PGPR at the Water/Oil Interface Inferred by Oscillatory or Transient Viscoelasticity Measurements
The rheological properties of PolyGlycerol PolyRicinoleate (PGPR) at the oil/water interface were studied using a drop-shaped tensiometer. Small deformation oscillations of the drop area allow the measurement or the interracial viscoelasticity spectrum, that is, the elastic and viscous moduli as a function or frequency. Another way to obtain such a spectrum is to perform a transient relaxation measurement from which the relaxation modulus as a function of time is deduced and interpreted. Several models containing one or move relaxation times were considered, and their resulting spectra were compared to the oscillatory ones. Similar results suggest that one could in principle use oscillatory or transient relaxations indifferently. However. the transient relaxation technique proved to be more adapted for the determination of the relaxation times. At low PGPR concentrations in oil, the behavior is controlled by long relaxation times, whereas short ones take over when approaching and exceeding the saturation interfacial concentration. This was understood as a shift from a diffusion-dominated regime to a rearrangements-dominated regime.