Abstract
AbstractAqueous solutions of acrylamide‐acrylic acid copolymers of high molecular weight have been investigated by light scattering. It was shown that a scattering peak can be obtained if the samples used have been prepared by alcaline hydrolysis of polyacrylamide and if the solutions are filtered and sonicated. In the range of the lower concentrations, the position of this peak, q*, is found to vary with the polymer concentration C, as C1/3, and to be independent of the charge density. The addition of very small amounts of salt provokes the disappearance of the peak. A phase diagram (charge density versus concentration of the polymer) has been established. It shows that these experiments were carried out in a concentration range intermediate between the dilute and the semidilute regimes (transition regime). The experimental scaling laws however correspond to the theoretical predictions for the dilute regime. Moreover, the q* values are much lower than those calculated by the random phase approximation theories.
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