Abstract
Pressure-volume-temperature (P-V-T) investigations represent an underappreciated area of polymer science and engineering. Such data can be obtained for both polymer solids and melts, sometimes in a single experiment (see the next section). Needless to say, such experiments can be conducted also for materials other than polymeric. The main applications of P-V-T results in the field of polymers are:
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prediction of polymer + polymer miscibility;
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prediction of service performance and service life of polymeric materials and components on the basis of free volume concepts;
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evaluation of start and progress of chemical reactions in polymer melts in cases when volume effects accompany the reaction;
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optimization of processing parameters, instead of establishing such parameters by trial and error;
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calculation of the surface tension γ of polymer melts.
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Brostow, W. (1999). P-V-T data and their uses. In: Karger-Kocsis, J. (eds) Polypropylene. Polymer Science and Technology Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4421-6_77
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