Collapse of Gels and the Critical Endpoint
- 20 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 40 (12), 820-823
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.40.820
Abstract
Collapse of polyacrylamide gels is observed upon changing temperature or fluid composition. It is explained in terms of mean-field theory based on the extension of Flory's formula for free energy of gels. Theory predicts, and I have observed, existence of a critical endpoint in the phase equilibria.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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