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Transport kinetics of methanol in hydroxyethyl methacrylate homopolymer and its copolymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2004

C-S. Tsai ,
Sanboh Lee  and
Tinh Nguyen
C-S. Tsai
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
Sanboh Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
Tinh Nguyen
Affiliation:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899
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Abstract

The kinetics of methanol transport in 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) homopolymer and 75/25 and 50/50 mol fraction HEMA/DHPMA (2,3-dihydroxypropyl methacrylate) copolymers at five different temperatures has been investigated using the sorption experiment technique. A combined case I and case II diffusion model was used to describe the transport processes. Four replicates for each temperature of each material having a nominal thickness of 0.1 mm were immersed in methanol maintained at 35, 40, 45, 50, and 55 °C, and the mass uptake as a function of time was measured gravimetrically. Experimental results are found to be in good agreement with model prediction at all temperatures and for all three materials. Both the diffusion coefficients of case I transport and velocity of case II transport increase with increasing temperature. D values at low temperatures (35 and 40 °C), which are in the 10−9 cm2/s range, of the HEMA homopolymer are less than those of the copolymers. On the other hand, the activation energies of case I transport of the copolymers are substantially higher than those of the HEMA homopolymer; however, the level of DHPMA loading in the copolymer does not seem to affect the activation energy. In addition, thermodynamic heat and free energy of mixing values indicate heat is released when HEMA/DHPMA copolymers are exposed to methanol and that the solvent/copolymer systems exist as a continuous phase. In contrast, the methanol/HEMA homopolymer system exists as separate phases.

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AbsorptionInfrared spectroscopyPolymer
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 19 , Issue 11 , November 2004 , pp. 3359 - 3363
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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