화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol.37, No.16, 2195-2199, 1999
Small-angle X-ray scattering from poly(methylmethacrylate) in aqueous solutions of t-butyl alcohol
Segment-segment interaction of poly(methylmethacrylate) in t-butyl alcohol-water mixtures in poor solvent regime was studied. From the small-angle X-ray scattering measurements of semidilute solution range, the binary and ternary cluster integrals of polymer segments were determined from concentration dependence of the correlation length at various temperatures just above the upper critical solution temperature. We have calculated the contributions of the segment-segment interaction to the entropy and enthalpy from the measured temperature dependence of these interaction parameters and found that both quantities are negative and decrease with decreasing t-butyl alcohol content. FT-IR absorption peak of carbonyl group of poly(methylmethacrylate) shifts to the lower frequency with increasing water content. The implications of these findings are discussed.