Features of the Rheological Behavior of Polymer-Colloidal Dispersions Based on a Sodium Salt of Carboxymethyl Cellulose and Silver Iodide Sols

Abstract

The rheological properties of aqueous solutions of a sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose are studied. The occurrence of a region of unstructured semidilute solutions in which the entanglement network is absent is found. The introduction of both opposite and like-charged micelles of the lyophobic sol into a semidilute polymer solution leads to its structuring due to the appearance of an additional network because of polymer adsorption on the surface of the sol. As a result of the network formation a decrease in the interval between the crossover and the formation concentration of the entanglement network and also an increase in the viscosity of the semidilute solution are observed.