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Experiments combining mechanical rheometry with polarimetry (birefringence and scattering dichroism) have been conducted on a 6% solution of polystyrene (1.86x106 molecular weight) in dioctyl phthalate. Birefringence is used to measure the extent of segmental orientation, whereas the dichroism is sensitive to orientation and deformation of concentration fluctuations associated with the process of flow-induced phase separation. The results indicate that these fluctuations grow predominately along the neutral (or vorticity axis) of a simple shear flow. At higher rates of shear, orientation in the flow direction is favored. The transition in orientation direction is accompanied by time-dependent behavior in the optical properties of the solution during shear and the onset of shear thickening of the viscosity and the first normal stress difference coefficient.
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Yanase, H., Moldenaers, P., Mewis, J. et al. Structure and dynamics of a polymer solution subject to flow-induced phase separation. Rheol Acta 30, 89–97 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366798
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