Estimation of Glass Transition Temperatures from Gas Chromatographic Studies on Polymers
Abstract In a recent communication, Smidsrød and Guillet showed that thermodynamic data on the interactions between poly (isopropylacrylamide) and various gaseous solutes could be obtained by making the polymer the stationary phase in a gas Chromatograph. It was also shown that if a solute was used which was a nonsolvent for the polymer, a plot of the logarithm of the specific retention volume as a function of reciprocal temperature showed a marked inflection at a temperature close to the glass transition temperature for the polymer. We wish to report similar data on several additional polymers which lead us to believe that the phenomenon is a general one and may be used to obtain an estimate of transition temperatures for a variety of polymeric materials.