DIFFUSION OF NON-POLYMERIC AND POLYMERIC MOLECULE IN CHAIN POLYMER LIQUID

Multicomponent diffusion in polymeric liquids.

It is shown how the phase-space kinetic theory of polymeric liquid mixtures leads to a set of extended Maxwell-Stefan equations describing multicomponent diffusion. This expression reduces to standard results for dilute solutions and for undiluted polymers. The polymer molecules are modeled as flexible bead-spring structures. To obtain the Maxwell-Stefan equations, the usual expression for the ...

Molecular diffusion in polymeric systems

Molecular diffusion of polymer chains and low molecular weight constituents and impurities can be an important process in the formation and application of polymer composites. Molecular diffusion in polymer systems is a complex process which can be a strong function of temperature, concentration, polymer molecular weight and polymer morphology. During the last decade, significant advances have b...

Bouncing of polymeric droplets on liquid interfaces.

The effect of polymers on the bouncing behavior of droplets in a highly viscous, vertically shaken silicone oil bath was investigated in this study. Droplets of a sample liquid were carefully placed on a vibrating bath that was maintained well below the threshold of Faraday waves. The bouncing threshold of the plate acceleration depended on the acceleration frequency. For pure water droplets an...

Side-Chain Multifunctional Photoresponsive Polymeric Materials

Photoinduced dynamics in a photosensitive side chain polymeric liquid crystal by quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering.

We report the first study by inelastic (INS) and quasielastic neutron scattering of photoinduced changes in the reorientational and vibrational dynamics of a liquid crystalline side chain polymer. We use the cis-trans photoisomerization transition to take the system out of equilibrium and determine the quasielastic (QE) and inelastic scattering laws on two distinct time windows, corresponding t...