CHIEN JEN-YUAN, YU SHIH-CHENG, KAO YU-SHOU. TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THE UNPERTURBED DIMENSION OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 1963,5(3):153-157.
CHIEN JEN-YUAN, YU SHIH-CHENG, KAO YU-SHOU. TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THE UNPERTURBED DIMENSION OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 1963,5(3):153-157.DOI:
The value of dln[n]θ/dlnT for a polydimethylsiloxane fraction of Mn=1.4×106 has been determined in a temperature range of 10一100℃ by using a series of θ-solvents made of ethylbenzene-diethylphthalate.The compositions of these θ-solvents at various temperatures were determined by the precipitation threshold method of Elias,and finally confirmed by light scattering to give vanishing second virial coefficient.The results show that dln [n]θ/dlnT=0.45.Using the Flory-Fox theory of intrinsic viscosity we get din h20/dlnT=0.30,that is,the unperturbed dimension of polydimethylsiloxane mole-cult increases with increasing temperature.This seems reasonable in view of the dipole-dipole interactions of the Me2SiO units along the chain,so that the gauche conforma-tion has lower energy than the trams conformation.