title: A time-dependent expression for thixotropic areas. Application to aerosil 200 hydrogels.
abstract: Experimental determination of the areas enclosed under the up curve, sigma = sigma(;gamma), corresponding to time zero, and the down curve, which would be obtained following complete rheodestruction of the system structure, is not an easy matter. In the present study a semi-empirical procedure for calculating the hypothetical values of these parameters is proposed. With these parameters it is possible to obtain a time-dependent expression for the thixotropic areas, S(T). This procedure has been applied to the study of the thixotropic behavior of Aerosil 200 hydrogels at different concentrations. The comparative analysis of these systems has been realized by studying the relative thixotropic areas and relative thixotropic rates that are obtained from S(T).
authors.affiliation: Department of Thermodynamics, Faculty of Pharmacy and Physics, Valencia University, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain. Manuel.Dolz@uv.es
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dolz
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Delegido
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hernández
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pellicer
mesh_terms: D019540:Area Under Curve; D020100:Hydrogels; D007700:Kinetics; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D020100:Hydrogels; D012822:Silicon Dioxide