title: Thixotropy of highly viscous sodium (carboxymethyl)cellulose hydrogels.
abstract: A general method to quantify the thixotropic behavior of systems with very low thixotropy is proposed. The areas enclosed by the rheograms tau = f(gamma) must be fitted to functions with well-determined boundary conditions. From these equations the corresponding thixotropic areas are obtained, together with the theoretical area enclosed by the rheogram corresponding to the maximum rheodestruction. The proposed method is applied to high viscosity sodium (carboxymethyl)cellulose gels.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thermodynamics, Faculty of Pharmacy and Physics, University of Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dolz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bugaj
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pellicer
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hernández
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Górecki
mesh_terms: D002266:Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium / Q000737:chemistry*; D005782:Gels; D014783:Viscosity
chemical_list: D005782:Gels; D002266:Carboxymethylcellulose Sodium