Epidemic Models for Chemical Gel Phase Transformation: Effect of Optical Measurements with Different Wavelengths
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Tarih
2023
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Taylor & Francis Inc
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
In our previous work we characterized the sol-gel transition of chemical and physical gels in terms of epidemic models which describe the spread of a disease in a society. We have shown that gelation in chemical gels can be represented by the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model, while the gelation mechanism of physical gels can be represented by the Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) model. These studies were based on optical measurements at a single wavelength. In the present work we studied the gelation mechanism for chemical gels obtained from experiments that have been carried out with acrylamide (AAm) and N,N0-methylenebis (acrylamide) (Bis) as base materials for chemical gel formation in water and with cross-linker. The transmitted light intensity was measured for various wavelengths from 440 nm to 690 nm during the gelation process. The data are modeled by the epidemic SIR process. The results indicate that the gelation processes obtained from the same Bis and water contents observed at different wavelengths obey different SIR models. This observation is explained by the scattering of light of different wavelengths depending on the sizes of the micro-gels formed.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Chemical Gels, Epidemic Models, Gelation, Phase Transitions, Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (Sır) Model, Photon Transmission Technique, Time
Kaynak
Journal of Macromolecular Science Part B-Physics
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N/A
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Q3
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62
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2