Determination of χ from liquid-liquid phase data in ternary polymer systems (solvent/polymer/polymer) with hydrogen bonding

• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Budapest University of Technology 2008-05-01
• Series: eXPRESS Polymer Letters
• Subjects: Modeling and simulation; interaction parameters; ternary polymer systems; hydrogen-bonding; rigid lattice theory
• Online Access: http://www.expresspolymlett.com/letolt.php?file=EPL-0000559&mi=cd

Two different models accounting for the dependences of χ and g interaction parameters on both temperature and composition have been applied to different ternary polymer systems (TPS) solvent(1)/polymer(2)/polymer(3). The analyzed TPS have consisted on ten different polymer mixtures in chloroform as common solvent that can specifically interact via hydrogen bond. Experimental ternary phase diagrams determined by liquid chromatography were taken from literature. The application of the two models to the experimental data have served to obtain χij and gij interaction parameters for all the binary ij (ij = 12, 13, 23) interactions established between the three components of the system, with simplified mathematical procedures. The results have shown a fair agreement between the calculated and the literature values, at least when the model containing an empirical entropy correction is used. Moreover, the evaluated interaction parameters follow the expected behaviour as the content of the H-donor polymer in the mixture is raised and are also in good accordance with experimental viscometric data.