The number of the hyperbranched polymers in the system is investigated for the polymerization process to give the asymptotic form of the concentration of the n-mer. The polydispersity exponent is calculated, which coincides with that of the classical result. Finally, the asymptotic forms of the number, the weight and the z-average degrees of the polymerization were evaluated analytically to obtain polydispersity index, which is close to 1 as the reaction is quantitatively completed.
The similarities between the formation of hydrogen bonds and polycondensation reactions are stated from the statistical viewpoint, and then taking the hydrogen bonding system of AaDd type as an example, the growing process of hydrogen bonding clusters is investigated in terms of the theory of reaction dynamics and statistical theory for polymeric reactions. The two methods lead to the same conclusions, stating that the statistical theory for polymerization is applicable to the hydrogen bonding systems. Based on this consideration, the explicit relationship between the conversions of proton-donors and proton-acceptors and the Gibbs free energy of the system under study is given. Furthermore, the sol-gel phase transition is predicted to take place in some hydrogen bonding systems, and the corresponding generalized scaling laws describing this kind of phase transition are obtained.
