A Simple Access to the (Log/Normal) Molecular Weight Distribution Parameters of Polymers Using PGSTE NMR

2011 ◽  
Vol 212 (10) ◽  
pp. 1007-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoliang Gong ◽  
Eddy W. Hansen ◽  
Qun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Molecular Weight Distribution ◽  
Weight Distribution ◽  
Distribution Parameters ◽  
Log Normal

Characterization of Elution Chromatography Fractions from CIS-Polybutadiene by GPC

1970 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1439-1450 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. V. Smith ◽  
S. Thiruvengada
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Molecular Weight Distribution ◽  
Weight Distribution ◽  
Low Molecular Weight ◽  
Molecular Weight Distributions ◽  
Weight Distributions ◽  
Log Normal ◽  
Analytical Fractionation ◽  
Molecular Weight Fractions ◽  
Elution Chromatography

Abstract A preparative fractionation of about 23 g of a commercial cis-polybutadiene rubber is described. The method employed was a solvent elution chromatographic method with very little temperature gradient. The molecular weight distributions of the fractions obtained were determined by an analytical fractionation of 20 mg of polymer. The method was similar to the preparative fractionation and involved solvent elution chromatography. The fractions obtained were assayed for quantity, molecular weight, and molecular weight distribution by GPC. The low molecular weight fractions of the preparative fractionation had molecular weight distributions which could be closely approximated by two log normal distributions, the low molecular weight component having the narrower width. The ratio of weight to number average molecular weight was found to be about 1.1 for these samples. The higher molecular weight fractions could also be approximated by two log normal distributions; however, in these fractions the low molecular weight component had a very broad distribution but constituted only a small portion of the sample. The widths of the GPC curves of the fractions correlate satisfactorily with the molecular weight distributions found by the analytical refractionations. The GPC width is a sensitive criterion of the width of the molecular weight distribution even when only two columns are used. It is felt that the analytical fractionation procedure presented gives more detailed information on the molecular weight distribution than is easily obtainable from an ordinary GPC curve.

THE FRACTIONATION OF POLYTHENE

1961 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1888-1891 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. Blackmore ◽  
W. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Distribution Function ◽  
Molecular Weight Distribution ◽  
Weight Distribution ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Average Molecular Weight ◽  
Weight Average Molecular Weight ◽  
Log Normal ◽  
Molecular Weight Fractions ◽  
Good Agreement

An apparatus is described for fractionating large quantities (400 g) of polythene into five roughly equal fractions using a fractional precipitation technique. Application of this method of fractionation to a linear polythene has shown that the width of the molecular-weight distribution of the successive fractions decreases as the fractionation proceeds. Consequently, the initial high-molecular-weight fractions require refractionation to produce equally narrow distributions in them as are found in later fractions. Good agreement is obtained with the experimentally determined values of the number-average and weight-average molecular weight for the parent polymer when the measured values of Mn and Mw for each fraction are used to calculate the values for the parent. The differential molecular-weight distribution function of the parent polymer was calculated on a Bendix G-15 computer from the data for the fractions by using the weight, number-average and weight-average molecular weight, measured for each fraction in conjunction with an assumed log-normal or negative binomial molecular-weight distribution function in each fraction.

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