TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ON THE DEGREE OF COMPLEXATION AND VISCOSITY OF POLYMER COMPLEXES

A topological theory has been introduced to evaluate the degree of com plexation and the viscosity of polymer complexes by extending the theo ry of Iliopoulos and Audebert for aqueous polymer solutions. The previ ous theory of Iliopoulos and Audebert has offered only a semiquantitat ive theoretical model for polymer complex systems, whereas our present work gives a general theoretical model applicable to all the polymer complex systems, Their theories considered only the physical property term caused by the displacement of complexed points between polymer so lute chains, while our theory deals with all the physical effects, cau sed by the displacement of complexed points entangled points in polyme r solute chains. There have been predicted the characteristics of phys ical properties from the expression. It is exposed that the predictive values show good agreement with the experimental data for polymer com plexes.