Rheological Measurement of In Situ Preheating Polycarbosilane Melt

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Rotational rheometer has been widely used in studying rheological properties of materials. However, the conventional rheological measurements may not be applicable for some non-traditional materials with characteristic properties. Polycarbosilane (PCS) is an oligomer and in the form of solid state at room temperature. A large amount of air bubbles are evolved during the heating process of PCS, which is extremely harmful for rheological measurements of PCS melt and detrimentally influences the accuracy of rheological data. In this work, a series of PCS raw samples were pretreated with different heating processes by the advanced rheometric expansion system at 315°C before the rheological measurements at 295°C. The softening point temperatures and molecular weight distributions of different PCS samples were obtained before and after the preheating processes. The experimental data collected with the in-situ preheating and ex-situ preheating for 1 h were compared.

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