화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Vol.13, No.1, 99-106, 1998
Phase behaviors and fractionation of polymer solutions in supercritical carbon dioxide
Supercritical carbon dioxide has been utilized to fractionate polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), poycarbosilane (PCS) and polystyrene (PS). Through the observation of phase behaviors in PS-toluene-CO2 systems the experiment shows that only a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) has been detected when the concentration of CO2 is 15.0 wt.% and temperatures range from 280.6 K to 373 K. We observe an upper critical solution temperature as well as an LCST at 16.2 wt.% of CO2 and the dramatic merge of two critical solution temperature curves by increasing CO2 concentration to 16.6 wt.%. When the concentration of CO2 was 16.6 wt.%, fractionated PS samples were obtained under different experimental conditions. Those samples were analyzed in terms of molecular weights and glass transition temperatures. For the PCS-hexane-CO2 systems we can observe an LCST when the CO2 concentration is 19.8 wt.%, and fractionation of PDMS also has been performed by ascending extracting pressures from 128.6 to 207.9 bar.