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N. Schuld

Solvent quality as reflected in concentration- and temperature-dependent Flory-Huggins interaction parameters

Flory-Huggins interaction parameters (χ) between poly(dimethylsiloxane) (weight-average molecular weight = 152 kg/mol) and various solvents (methyl ethyl ketone, toluene and n-octane) were determined as a function of composition and temperature with vapor-pressure measurements. These data, complemented by independent information for dilute and very concentrated solutions, serve as the basis for a discussion of solvent quality via different theoretical relations. Regardless of polymer concentration, the χ values fall from methyl ethyl ketone via toluene to n-octane, the ketone being the worst solvent and the hydrocarbon being the best solvent. The variation of χ with composition and temperat…

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On what terms and why the thermodynamic properties of polymer solutions depend on chain length up to the melt

Theoretical considerations based on chain connectivity and conformational variability of polymers have lead to an uncomplicated relation for the dependence of the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, chi, on the volume fraction of the polymer, phi, and on its number of segments, N. The validity of this expression is being tested extensively by means of vapor pressure measurements and inverse gas chromatography (complemented by osmotic and light scattering data from literature) for solutions of poly(dimethylsiloxane) in the thermodynamically vastly different solvents n-octane (n-C8), toluene (TL), and methylethylketone (MEK) over the entire range of composition for at least six different mol…

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Polymer‐Solvent Interaction Parameters

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