scholarly journals The Mechanical Behavior of Swollen Polymethyl Acrylate Gels. I. The Determination of Polymer-Solvent Interaction Parameter μ by the Mechanical Measurement

1958 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 577-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuyoshi Ogino
Polymer ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 135-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umut Akalp ◽  
Stanley Chu ◽  
Stacey C. Skaalure ◽  
Stephanie J. Bryant ◽  
Alireza Doostan ◽  
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1974 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. M. Gavrilov ◽  
A. G. Shvarts

Abstract Values of the polymer-solvent interaction parameter were obtained for cis-1,4-poly(butadiene) vulcanized with alkylphenol—formaldehyde oligomer, sulfur, and peroxide systems swollen with heptane, benzene, and m-xylene. The dependence of the interaction parameter on the degree of crosslinking was demonstrated. The method of vulcanization does not affect the dependence of χ on υr for good solvents, but influences this dependence for n-heptane, a weak solvent. It was shown that the better the solvent, the stronger the dependence of the interaction parameter on the degree of crosslinking.


2011 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 279-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUNDIKA CANDRA KURNIA ◽  
ERIK BIRGERSSON ◽  
ARUN S. MUJUMDAR ◽  
SOCK PENG TAY ◽  
YONG KIN YEW ◽  
...  

A mathematical model for stimuli-sensitive hydrogels in a water-alcohol solution is presented and analyzed, in which a new polymer-solvent interaction parameter is proposed to capture the deformation of the hydrogel due to changes in the external alcohol content and temperature. The nature of this parameter is determined in the limit of pure dilatation for poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels immersed in tempered water-methanol and -ethanol solutions. Overall, good agreement between the resulting model predictions and experiments is achieved; the transition temperatures and "re-entrant phenomenon" are also captured reasonably well. The herein derived expression for the polymer-solvent interaction parameter can be introduced into more generic transient models that also account for fluxes of the relevant field variables.


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