Abstract
The rheology of a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) latex stabilized with poly(12-hydroxystearic acid) and dispersed in dodecane at a volume fraction of 0.42 was observed to deviate from near Newtonian behavior upon the addition of polyisobutylene (PIB) at high and low molecular weights, 380,000 and 2,000, respectively. The high molecular weight PIB gave the dispersion a predicted depletion-flocculated behavior, with observable phase separation and non-Newtonian shear thinning rheology, as a consequence of the additional attractive particle interaction component. Added low molecular weight PIB, however, gave comparatively much stronger non-Newtonian behavior with no observable phase separation. This behavior was observed in a region of polymer molecular weights and size comparable to that of the steric layer. The results are consistent with a steric-elastic repulsion arising from the compression of the nonadsorbing polymer chains at high particle volume fraction and not with an attractive term due to depletion flocculation.
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