The issue of whether extensional viscosity is a concept that causes more confusion than
enlightenment is addressed. This author's view is that misuse of the concept certainly has …

Many processing operations of polymeric materials are dominated by extensional flow. In
this paper the question is addressed in which way rheological data obtained from …

We provide a Perspective on recent findings in extensional rheology for polymer melts and
solutions with different macromolecular architectures. For linear polymer systems, we focus …

We compare viscoelastic properties of several polystyrene solutions and melts with the
same number of entanglements. It is demonstrated that the modulus and time can be shifted …

We use a new extensional rheology test fixture that has been developed for conventional
torsional rheometers to measure the transient extensional stress growth in a number of …

A filament-stretching rheometer is used to measure the extensional viscosity of a shear-
thickening suspension of cornstarch in water. The experiments are performed at a …

Well-defined, monodisperse homopolymer comb architectures with varied number and
length of the branches under linear and nonlinear deformation were synthesized and …

The start-up and steady uniaxial elongational viscosity have been measured for two
monodisperse polystyrene melts with molecular weights of 52 and 103 kg∕ mole, and for …

The study of commercial low-density polyethylenes (LDPEs) has always focused on the
effects of the molecular architecture of the polymer on its shear and extensional rheological …

The shear and elongational rheology of linear and pom-pom shaped polystyrene (PS)
blends was investigated experimentally and modeled using constitutive models such as the …