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Measurements of molecular characteristics of the extremely high molecular mass polystyrene in solution

L. Šoltés, D. Mikulášová, and I. Hudec

Institute of Experimental Pharmacology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 881 05 Bratislava

Abstract:  Extremely high molecular mass polystyrene samples with M_w of the order of 10⁷ have been characterized by light scattering in toluene, by viscometry in toluene and decaline, and by gel permeation chromatography in methyl ethyl ketone and methanol mixture. From the obtained data, the К and a constants of the Kuhn—Mark—Houwink equation, and the dependence of the second virial coefficient A₂ on M_w have been calculated.  

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Chemical Papers 35 (4) 543–549 (1981)