title: Analysis of interfacial phenomena of aqueous solutions of polyethylene oxide and polyethylene glycol flowing in hydrophilic and hydrophobic capillary viscometers.
abstract: Viscosities of aqueous solutions of five polyethylene oxide (PEO) samples with molar masses from 1.5 x 10(5) to 1.0 x 10(6) were carefully measured in a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) capillary Ubbelohde viscometer in the concentration range from dilute down to extremely dilute concentration regions and compared with those of the same sample obtained from a glass capillary viscometer. At the same time, viscosities of aqueous solutions of three PEG samples in glass and paraffin-coated capillary viscosity were measured. The wall effects occurred in viscosity measurements for PEO and PEG aqueous solutions in different capillary viscometers were theoretically analyzed and discussed. It was found that different interfacial behaviors occurred in both hydrophobic and hydrophilic capillary viscometers respectively and the interfacial behaviors also exhibit molar mass dependence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and National Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Materials Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jiali
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Shuqin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bo
authors.forename: Rongshi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Liansheng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang