The critical overlapping concentration c' which separates the dilute and ex
tremely dilute regimes for polyacrylonitrile in dimethylformamide was studi
ed by viscometry. A scaling law between the reduced viscosity eta(sp)/c and
the concentration for the extremely dilute regime was found and the deviat
ion from the Huggins dependence was discussed. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Lt
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