A simple approach to polymer mixture miscibility.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
Julia S HigginsRonald P White

Abstract

Polymeric mixtures are important materials, but the control and understanding of mixing behaviour poses problems. The original Flory-Huggins theoretical approach, using a lattice model to compute the statistical thermodynamics, provides the basic understanding of the thermodynamic processes involved but is deficient in describing most real systems, and has little or no predictive capability. We have developed an approach using a lattice integral equation theory, and in this paper we demonstrate that this not only describes well the literature data on polymer mixtures but allows new insights into the behaviour of polymers and their mixtures. The characteristic parameters obtained by fitting the data have been successfully shown to be transferable from one dataset to another, to be able to correctly predict behaviour outside the experimental range of the original data and to allow meaningful comparisons to be made between different polymer mixtures.

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Jun 9, 2016·Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering·J S Higgins
May 29, 2016·Biomacromolecules·Charlotte D VacogneHelmut Schlaad
Apr 27, 2017·Soft Matter·Elise F D SabattiéRichard L Thompson
Apr 8, 2014·The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B·Richard MendelsohnCarol R Flach
Apr 11, 2018·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Richard J Wheeler, Anthony A Hyman
May 28, 2013·Nature Materials·Sergei S SheikoMichael Rubinstein
Nov 17, 2020·Advanced Materials·Maja KuzmanovićKim Ragaert
Jun 16, 2021·Open Biology·Charlotte M FareJames Shorter
Mar 4, 2015·Molecular Pharmaceutics·Mohammed ManiruzzamanDennis Douroumis
Nov 14, 2018··Harrivin VijayakumaranTamiru Alemu Lemma

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
zero
angle neutron scattering
these
neutron scattering
SANS
small angle neutron scattering

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