Liquid Liquid Phase Separation in Polydisperse Polymer Solutions: The Distribution Coefficient

Gerrit Ten Brinke, Igal Szleifer

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Abstract

Phase separation in polymer solutions is highly asymmetric: an inhomogeneous dilute phase of isolated coils is in equilibrium with a homogeneous concentrated solution. Many deviations from the simple Flory-Huggins predictions, found experimentally, can be traced back to this fact. Here, a previously introduced improved description obtained by an explicit coupling of configurational statistics to thermodynamics is extended to polydisperse polymer solutions. It is shown to predict a chain length dependence of the distribution of polymer molecules over the two phases that differs from the original F-H predictions but agrees well with experimental results.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)5434-5439
Number of pages6
JournalMacromolecules
Volume28
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 1995

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry

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