The condensed behavior of polymer fluids were studied based on the van der Waals interaction. By comparing the phase diagram of pure polymer fluids and that of van der Waals non-ideal fluids, it is found that (1) pure polymer fluids show a similar phase diagram to van der Waals non-ideal fluids; (2) the differences between the phase diagrams were caused by the difference of chain lengths. It is explained that why the vapor pressure of polymer is hard to detect and why the negative pressure can exist in polymer liquids. It is also found that some scaling relations exist between the reduced critical pressure and the chain length, and the reduced critical volume and the chain length.
The waterborne particles of bisphenol A epoxy resin were prepared by the phaseinversion technique, and the effects of the concentration of the synthetic polymeric emulslfleron the particles size and structure were discussed. At lower concentration of the emulsifier,the bigger molecular sieves alike particles were obtained, on the contrary, the smallerparticles with some aggregation were prepared at higher concentration of the emulslfler. Theformation mechanism of different particle sizes and structure at different concentrations of theemulsifier was proposed. presides, the probable model of the aggregation was also brieflypresented.
In this paper, we discussed the drying behavior of monodispersed polystyrene latex at high temperature with particular attention to the morphological evolution during film formation process. At the beginning of the water evaporation, a skin film with some defects was formed at latex/air interface, water evaporated thereby in a constant rate. During this stage, a drying front advanced from the top film towards the bulk dispersion. Afterwards, most water was lost, and water evaporation rate was less than that of the initial stage. In this case, the whole system became immobile, and another drying front developed from the interior region outside the system. Two distinct boundaries between completely dried region and wet region corresponding to the opposite directions of the second drying front were found if the film peeled from the container bottom surface. Besides, some particular morphologies were found in the completely dried region, which was likely related to preferable coalescence among the particles induced by capillary force due to water evaporation.
In this paper, molecular orientation behavior of polymethylene chains was investigated on the basis of considering long\|distance interactions by using the enumeration calculation method and the rotational isomeric state(RIS) model. The chain lengths are from \%N\%=12 to \%N=\%24, and the Lennord\|Jennes potential was adopted in the non\|local interaction calculations. The molecular orientation function(Legendre polynomial) may be well expressed as\$\$/(λ\+2-λ\+\{-1\})=a(λ\+2-λ\+\{-1\})+b\$\$here\% a\% and\% b\% only depend on the chain length, and decrease with the increase of chain length, especially for \%b\%. In the meantime, we also calculate the Helmholtz free energy change in the process of tensile deformation. Comparisons with Gaussian chains are made, and our results are close to those obtained from the Roe and Krigbaum theory.
