Phase separation of poly(ethylene glycol) and of poly(propylene glycol) in mixtures of fluorinated and semi-fluorinated liquids

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Phase behaviour studies have identified hydrogen bonding as a key aspect in polymer solubility in fluorinated liquids, both in terms of solute-solvent and solute-solute interactions. We propose a SANS experiment to explore the balance of these two terms using mixtures of fully (non-hydrogen bonding) and partially fluorinated (hydrogen bonding) solvents, and polymers which are -OH or CH3- end-capped to vary their hydrogen bonding capacity. Changes in polymer solution conformation (radius of gyration) due to changing solute-solvent interactions (intermediate Q range), and the formation of polymer clusters due to solute-solute interactions (enhanced scattering at low Q values) will be studied as a function of temperature and/or solvent composition across the phase diagram, to identify which interactions are most important in determining the phase behaviour.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24081826
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24081826
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Creator Professor Peter Griffiths; Dr Alison Paul; Miss Jamie Hurcom
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-03-31T07:39:28Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-07-27T08:13:43Z