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Entropy theory and glass transition: A test by Monte Carlo simulation

1997

This article reviews the results of a test of the Gibbs-DiMarzio theory by Monte Carlo Simulation. The simulation employed the bond-fluctuation model on a simple cubic lattice. This model incorporates two kinds of interactions: the excluded volume interaction among all monomers of the melt and an internal energy of the chains, which favors large bonds and makes the chains stiffen with decreasing temperature. The stiffening of the chains leads to an increase of their volume requirements, which competes with the packing constraints at low temperatures. This competition strongly slows down the structural relaxation of the melt and induces the glassy behavior. The model therefore takes into acc…

Measurement of the strain-optic coefficients of PMMA from 800 to 2000 nm

2020

The strain-optic coefficients of PMMA are measured in a broad wavelength range from 800 to 2000 nm. The sensitivity of the azimuthal whispering gallery mode resonances to the strain is exploited to measure the strain-optic coefficients of PMMA micro-rods. The technique is based on measuring the wavelength shift of the resonances of both polarizations states, the TE and TM, when an axial strain is applied to the polymer rods. This method enables the determination of the strain-optic coefficients of the material in a broad wavelength range. In particular, in the near-infrared range, the PMMA exhibits negligible dispersion and anisotropy, and the strain-optic coefficients show constant values …

ISOLATION OF RAT LIVER EPOXIDE HYDRATASE: PROPERTIES AND SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF THE PURE ENZYME

1977

ABSTRACT The microsomal enzyme epoxide hydratase has been purified to homogeneity as judged by electrophoretical, ultracentrifugal and immunological criteria and by C- and N-terminal analysis. The preparation procedure consisted of solubilisation using the non-ionic detergent cutscum, (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and cellulose phosphate and hydrophobic chromatography on butyl-sepharose. The product was detergent-free, had a relatively high content of hydrophobic amino acids and tended to aggregate in aqueous solutions. The protein had a minimum molecular weight of 49,000 ± 500 with a sedimentation coefficient of S20w≃ 3. Antibodies raised against th…

1986

The variation of the Huggins coefficient KH with the relative molecular mass M of the polymers was measured for solutions of polystyrene and of polyisobutylene and found to be most pronounced in the case of thermodynamically good solvents but vanishing at the theta-temperature, where the individual curves kH (T; M) intersect with each other. The experimental results are interpreted as a consequence of the rheological inequality of inter- and intra-molecular contacts between polymer segments. A model is presented according to which kH should be a linear function of M−(a−0,5), where a is the exponent of the intrinsic viscosity-relative molecular mass relationship (Kuhn-Mark-Houwink). The eval…

Correlation between transport and equilibrium properties through the ternary interaction parameter for cosolvent and cononsolvent polymeric systems

1992

A study of the ternary polymer systems dimethyl formamide-ethyl acetate-polystyrene, chloroform-1,4 dioxane-polystyrene and tetrahydrofuran-chloroform-polystyrene was carried out by viscosity and light scattering at 298 K. A good correlation has been found between the excess intrinsic viscosity, unperturbed polymer dimensions, second virial coefficient and the excess Gibbs free energy by using a ternary interaction parameter, dependent on molecular weight. This modification enables the conversion between transport and equilibrium properties.

Die bestimmung des chemischen potentials und des expansionskoeffizienten in mischungen von polydimethylsiloxanen unterschiedlichen molekulargewichts

1976

Wird ein Polymermolekul in einer Polymerschmelze von gleicher chemischer Art aber anderem Molekulargewicht gelost, so ist das geloste Polymermolekul im allgemeinen relativ zum ungestorten statistischen Knauel expandiert. Der Expansionskoeffizient und der zweite osmotische Virialkoeffizient hangen von den Molekulargewichten der beiden Polymeren ab. Die experimentellen Befunde werden durch die Gittertheorie fur athermische Losungen von Polymeren richtig beschrieben. If a polymer molecule is solved within a polymer melt of the same chemical nature but of different molecular weight, the solved polymer molecule in general is expanded as compared with the unperturbed statistical coil. The expansi…

Über eine Beziehung zwischen Verdünnunasentropie und Verdünnungsenthalpie in Lösungen von Polystyrol und Polymethylmethacrylat

1973

Durch Lichtstreuungsmessungen wurde der Entropieanteil und der Enthalpieanteil des 2. osmotischen Virialkoeffizienten (A2) von athermischen und exothermischen Losungen von Polystyrol (PS) und Polymethylmethacrylat (PMMA) bei 25°C und Normaldruck bestimmt. Zur Auffindung von athermischen und exothermischen Losungsmitteln fur diese Polymeren wurde die Temperaturabhangigkeit des STAUDINGERindex verwendet. Die ermittelten thermodynamischen Grosen A2, A2,S und A2,H ergeben zusammen mit fruheren Messungen eine beziehung, die nahezu unabhangig vom speziellen System ist. The second osmotic virial coefficient A2 and its entropic and enthalpic parts of athermal and exothermal solutions of polystyrene…

Factors influencing the transport of tryptophan hydrochloride through supported liquid membranes containing macrocyclic carriers

1997

Commercially available PTFE membranes were used as a support for liquid membranes in amino acid transport. Using tryptophan as a model amino acid, the influence of the type of organic liquid, kind of macrocyclic carrier and counter-ion on transport efficiency was examined. These studies show the strong influence of the kind of the counter-ion co-transported with amino acid cation, and the type of macrocyclic carrier used on the transport efficiency. The transport efficiency depends also on the pH of the source phase and on the nature of the organic liquid used as a membrane solvent. Liquid membranes supported on commercial porous-PTFE-membranes with hydrophobic solvents are stable for more …

1990

Taking into account the dependency on molar mass of the viscometric interaction parameter B, the modified Stockmayer-Fixman-Burchard equation ([η]/M1/2) = KΘ + C″ · A2 · M1/2 is obtained. It relates the intrinsic viscosity, [η], to the second virial coefficient, A2, and to the unperturbed dimensions parameter, KΘ, with C″ being a constant. Hereupon, KΘ can be determined from [η] and A2 data of any binary (solvent/polymer) and/or ternary (solvent 1/solvent 2/polymer) system, BPS and/or TPS. Because of the scarcity of reliable sets of [η] and A2 values mostly for TPS, the application of the above equation to obtain KΘ coefficients rests limited. This limitation can be surmounted by an A2 eval…

Lichtstreuungsmessungen an oligomeren; lösungsverhalten von polypropylenglykol

1967

Es wird uber Lichtstreuungsmessungen an Polypropylenglykolen mit Molekulargewichten von M = 400 bis 4000, an monomerem und dimerem Propylenglykol, an Diphenyl, Tristearin und Pentaerythrittetrastearat in Losung berichtet. Die molekulareinheitlichen Substanzen dienten zur Untersuchung der Leistungsfahigkeit der Lichtstreuungstechnik im Bereich niedriger Molekulargewichte. Fur den CABANNES-Faktor und das Brechungsinkrement wurde eine Abhangigkeit von Molekulargewicht und Konzentration gefunden. Die Streulichtmessungen an den polymerhomologen Propylenglykolen in Verbindung mit Viskositatsmessungen in Aceton und Benzol wurden zur Charakterisierung des Losungsverhaltens verwendet. Es ergab sich,…