Polymer Science and Standards Division, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC 20234, USA
Abstract:
A new method for the analysis of ultracentrifugation interference patterns with the use of a commercial image digitizer is given. The application of the method to the sedimentation equilibrium data for SRM 1478 polystyrene leads to a weight-average molecular weight of 37 400 g mol−1 having a sample standard deviation of 0.7% and an expected systematic error limit of 2%.