Imperial College London
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Professor DameJuliaHiggins

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

Emeritus Professor Distinguished Research Fellow
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5565j.higgins

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Sarah Payne +44 (0)20 7594 5567

 
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Location

 

337Roderic Hill BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Hindawi:1989,
author = {Hindawi, I and Higgins, JS and Galambos, AF and Weiss, RA},
pages = {1852--1854},
title = {Flow-induced mixing of blends of poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate) and solution chlorinated polyethylene},
year = {1989}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The authors describe the development of an apparatus for studying the light scattering during SSF of polymer blends and some preliminary results for a 50/50 blend of poly(ethylene vinyl acetate), EVA, and solution chlorinated polyethylene (SCPE). Light scattering experiments during shear flow of EVA/SCPE blends indicate that stress improves the miscibility of the two polymers. This is interpreted in terms of a stress-dependent phase diagram in which the phase boundary of a polymer mixture that exhibits a lower critical solution temperature is shifted upwards in temperature due to the application of stress. The phenomenon required a critical stress, but in the case of the EVA/SCPE, this is relatively low and improvements in miscibility were observed at temperatures of nearly 30°C above the cloud point.
AU  - Hindawi,I
AU  - Higgins,JS
AU  - Galambos,AF
AU  - Weiss,RA
EP  - 1854
PY  - 1989///
SN  - 0733-4192
SP  - 1852
TI  - Flow-induced mixing of blends of poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate) and solution chlorinated polyethylene
ER  -
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