Open AccessCover Image, Volume 54, Issue 20
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of polymer science part b: polymer physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1099-0488
pISSN - 0887-6266
DOI - 10.1002/polb.24230
Subject(s) - photoelasticity , monochromatic color , reflection (computer programming) , optics , rheology , shearing (physics) , materials science , computer science , physics , composite material , programming language , solid mechanics
On page 2151 (DOI: 10.1002/polb.24111 ) Oleksandr Mykhaylyk and colleagues propose a new mechano‐optical rheological technique based on a combination of rotational rheometer and reflection polariscope for simultaneous rheology and structural characterization of polymeric liquids, as well as soft matter materials. Representative polarized light images (PLIs) of polyethylene melt taken at the shearing start‐up using different optical settings such as a plain reflection polariscope with a white light (bottom), a circular reflection polariscope with a monochromatic light (middle) and a plain reflection polariscope with a monochromatic light (top) are shown.