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Compatibility Range in Polymer Mixtures. An approach using analogue calorimetry and group contribution procedures

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The mixing enthalpies of blends of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) with poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN) were investigated by analogue calorimetry through the determination of the excess enthalpies of pseudobinary model mixtures corresponding to the addition of methyl-i-butyrate to a binary mixture of acetonitrile or propionitrile plus toluene or ethylbenzene.

A group contribution procedure, based on UNIQUAC equation, was also devised and the polymeric mixing enthalpies were calculated from properly defined group contributions. Enthalpies for polymeric interactions were introduced into the Flory-Huggins equation and the miscibility window of PMMA-SAN mixtures was calculated.

The results show a qualitative agreement with the experimental miscibility data and indicate that both the analogue calorimetry and the group contribution procedures yield correct results when acetonitrile, and not propionitrile, is chosen as the model for the polyacrylonitrile repeat unit of the copolymer.

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    C. Cardelli, G. Conti, P. Gianni & R. Porta

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Cardelli, C., Conti, G., Gianni, P. et al. Compatibility Range in Polymer Mixtures. An approach using analogue calorimetry and group contribution procedures. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 62, 135–151 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010118929599

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