Affiliation: | a Anticorrosive Protection Varnishes and Paint Research Institute, 49A Theodor Pallady Blvd, Bucharest 74585, Romania b University of Bucharest, Faculty of Chemistry, Laboratory of Physical Chemisty of Ploymers, 13 Carol I Blvd, Bucharest 70346, Romania |
Abstract: | An improved method to calculate Hansen solubility parameters δd, δp and δh, as well as the radius of interaction sphere for a given polymer is presented, starting from the idea that the solvents which dissolve a polymer, form in the interior of its solubility range a system of material points, their ‘masses' being given by the unity normed intrinsic viscosities of the polymer in the considered solvents. The mass centre coordinates of the material points system represent in fact Hansen solubility parameters of the polymer, and the radius of interaction sphere the distance from this centre to the farthest point of material points system mentioned. |