This article studies equilibrium singular configurations of gels and addresses open questions concerning gel energetics. We model a as an incompressible, immiscible saturated mixture solid polymer solvent that sustain chemical interactions at the molecular level. assume energy consists elastic its network plus Flory-Huggins mixing. The latter involves entropic energies individual components int...

The dependence of the intrinsic viscosity [η] on the weight average degree of polymerization Pw of chitosans in aqueous acid media is discussed in terms of the Yamakawa-Fujii theory for the worm-like cylinder model. The conformational characteristics (Kuhn statistical segment length and Flory characteristic ratio) are estimated. They increase linearly with the reciprocal of the square root of s...

It is traced out a parallel between the cosmological constant problem and the polymer physics. The time evolution of the universe world line is compared with the growing of a polymer chain. An equivalent Flory free energy and a modification of it are used as a means to evaluate two versions for the “radius of gyration” of the universe. It is proposed a link between this radius of gyration and t...

For concentrated polymer solutions, the free energy of mixing can be described through a “regular solution” model, such as that set forth by Flory, for a mixture of nc polymers and ns solvent molecules. To understand how the model breaks down for lower concentrations, it will be helpful to review its essential features. It is convenient to derive such a model using a lattice construct, though t...

A self-consistent field theory that describes a part of a contour loop of a random Gaussian surface as a trajectory interacting with itself is constructed. The exponent nu characterizing the end-to-end distance is obtained by a Flory argument. The result is compared with different previous derivations and is found to agree with that of Kondev and Henley over most of the range of the roughening ...

Separation of aromatic/non-aromatic mixtures by membrane based pervaportion process is usually analyzed by the solution-diffusion model which assumes that a permeating component is first dissolved in the membrane and then diffuses through the membrane due to its driving force. Therefore, the separate evaluation of sorption equilibria is necessary in order to determine the controlling step in ov...

Specific heat ratio (γ), pseudo-Grüneisen parameter (Γ ), heat capacity (Cp) and effective Debye temperature (θD) for binary system of tetrahydrofuran with o-cresol and methanol respectively, were calculated using the experimentally measured densities, velocities and viscosities of the pure liquids and their mixtures over the whole composition range and at T = 293, 303, 313 K. The excess pseudo...