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Application of a New Scaling Parameter to Chain Expansion in the Systems of Polystyrene/Mixed Solvents  

Park, Il-Hyun (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Lee, Dong-Il (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Hwang, Mi-Ok (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Yu, Young-Chol (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Park, Ki-Sang (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Polymer(Korea) / v.31, no.2, 2007 , pp. 98-104 More about this Journal
Abstract
The expansion behavior of polystyrene (PS) chains with various molecular weights has been investigated above Flory $\Theta$temperature by viscometry after dissolving in the three different mixed solvents systems such as benzene/n-heptane, 1,4-dioxane/isopropanol, and 1,4-dioxane/n-heptane. Two different regimes are observed as increasing temperature: one regime is for the expansion of chain and the other is for the contraction. For the higher molecular weight sample of PS, the higher peak temperature showing its maximum expansion is obtained. Within a certain system of Ps/mixed solvents, the $\tau/\tau_c$ parameter shows universality for the variation of molecular weight. But while each system of Ps/mixed solvents has shown its own different slope, the universality breaks down in the overall system of mixed solvents. However after introducing a new empirical $b^{2/3}\tau/\tau_c$ parameter, all data points of three different systems have dropt on one master curve and the universality of chain expansion has recovered again. Here $\tau$ and $\tau_c$ are defined as $(T-\Theta)/\Theta$ and $(\Theta-T_c)/T_c$, respectively and $T_c$ is the critical solution temperature, and b of Schultz-Flory equation is corresponding to the effective slope in the plot of $1/T_c$ against $1/M_w^{1/2}$.
Keywords
scaling parameter; universality; polymer expansion; mixed solvents;
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