Thermal and Mass Diffusion in a Semidilute Good Solvent-Polymer Solution
Thermal and Mass Diffusion in a Semidilute Good Solvent-Polymer Solution
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半稀良溶剂-聚合物溶液中的热扩散和质量扩散
DOI:
10.1063/1.479498
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
J. Douglas
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作者:
K. J. Zhang;M. Briggs;R. Gammon;J. Sengers;J. Douglas
The Soret coefficient ST and collective (mass) diffusion coefficient Dc of polystyrene dissolved in the good-solvent toluene has been measured over a range of concentrations and molecular masses with an optical beam-deflection method. Our measurements indicate that ST scales inversely with the polymer translational diffusion coefficient in dilute solutions, exhibits a power-law scaling with polymer concentration, and an independence of polymer molecular mass in semidilute solutions. These findings are consistent with the known scaling of 1/Dc in dilute and semidilute polymer solutions, the relative insensitivity of the thermal-diffusion coefficient Dth of polystyrene in toluene to polymer concentration, and the relation ST=Dth/Dc from irreversible thermodynamics. We are able to represent our ST and Dc data by theoretically motivated reduced-concentration master curves, but the concentration-molecular mass scaling variables are found to be different for each transport property, a result contrary to theoret...