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TL;DR: In this article, an activation energy equal to about one barrier height has been found for the second-nearest neighbor transition of a polymer chain, where the second nearest neighbor is the second closest neighbor.
Abstract: Conformational transitions of a macromolecule have been studied by computer simulation of the Brownian dynamics of a polymer chain. An activation energy equal to about one barrier height has been found. However, there is a great deal of cooperativity of transitions especially between bonds which are second nearest neighbors.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the light scattering technique to measure the phase separation temperatures (cloud points) of mixtures containing a polystyrene and a polybutadiene of various molecular weights.
Abstract: : The light scattering technique was utilized to measure the phase separation temperatures (cloud points) of mixtures containing a polystyrene and a polybutadiene of various molecular weights and also of mixtures containing a polystyrene and a random or block copolymer of styrene and butadiene. The data was analyzed to obtain the polymer-polymer interaction parameter for the styrene-butadiene pair as a function of temperature and concentration. The value of the parameter deduced from the homopolymer mixtures agrees well with that obtained from the mixtures containing a copolymer. The polymer-polymer interaction parameter thus evaluated was compared with a theoretical expression derived on the basis of the Flory equation-of-state theory. The effect of the free volume disparity between the two components was found to play a relatively minor role in determining the interaction parameter when the two polymers lack any specific interactions which would make them mutually miscible. (Author)
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