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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Viscoelasticity
Authors : Natalie Rudolph, Tim Osswald
Published in: Polymer Rheology
Publisher: Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
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Although polymers have their distinct transitions and may be considered liquid when above the glass transition or melting temperatures, or solid when below those temperatures, in reality they are neither liquid nor solid, but viscoelastic. In fact, at any temperature, a polymer can be either a liquid or a solid, depending on the time scale or the speed at which its molecules are being deformed.