Dependence of flory-Huggins χ parameters on the copolymer composition for solutions of poly(methyl methacrylate-ran-n-butyl methacrylate) in cyclohexanone
✍ Scribed by Tomoo Shiomi; Masao Tohyama; Masaki Endo; Tsukasa Sato; Kiyokazu Imai
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 585 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-6266
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✦ Synopsis
Intermolecular interactions in random copolymer systems depend on the copolymer composition as being observed as a miscibility window in the random copolymer blends. The copolymer composition dependencies of the Flory-Huggins X parameter and the heats of mixing AHM(m) a t infinite dilution were studied for the solutions of poly(methy1 methacrylate-run-n-butyl methacrylate) (MMAnBMA) in cyclohexanone (CHN). The copolymer composition dependencies of x obtained from osmotic pressures and of AH,(co) measured with a microcalorimeter were concave curves. This suggests that the random copolymers MMAnBMA interact with CHN more attractively than do the homopolymers PMMA and PnBMA. This is caused by the repulsion effect between the MMA and nBMA segments. The equation-of-state theory extended to the random copolymer systems by us reproduced fairly well these thermodynamic properties. The x parameter for the PMMA/PnBMA blends was calculated using the equation-of-state theory with the MMA/nBMA intersegmental parameters employed for the above random copolymer solutions in CHN. The x value calculated thus was in satisfactory agreement with that obtained from the random copolymer solutions using the Flory-Huggins theory extended to multicomponent systems.