A Study of the Thermodynamical Interactions of Bisphenol-A Polycarbonate With Some Solvents by Gas Chromatography

Authors: Özlem CANKURTARAN, Ferdane YILMAZ

Abstract: Retentin diagrams of polycarbonate for n-nonane, ethyl acetate and n-butyl acetate were obtained using inverse gas chromatography in the temperature range 80-240^{\circ}C. The specific retention volumes, V^{\circ}_{g} the Flory-Huggins interaction parmeters, \chi^{\infty}_{12}, interaction parameters, \chi^{\ast}_{12}, and effective exchange-energy parameters \bar{X}_{12} of the equation-of-state theory of polycarbonate for n-octane, n-nonane, n-decane, ethyl acetate, isopropyl acetate, n-butyl acetate, isobutyl acetate, tert-butyl acetate and isoamyl acetate were obtained in the temperature range 200-240^{\circ}C. The parameter \delta_2 was estimated to be 10.7 (cal/cm^3)^{1/2} at room temperature using the \chi^{\infty}_{12} extrapolated to room temperature. Keywords: Bisphenol-A polycarbonate, polymer-solvent interactions, inverse gas chromatography, solubility parameter.

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