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Narrow-distribution fractions of bisphenol A polycarbonate in tetrahydrofuran (THF) and chloroform were studied by light-scattering, sedimentation velocity, and viscosity measurements over the range of molecular weights from 4×103 to 5×105. The asymptotic values of a dimensionless quantity A2Mw/[η] and the interpenetration function Ψ Where significantly lower than those usually expected for flexible polymers, suggesting a certain stiffness of the polycarbonate chain. Here A2 is the second virial coefficient, Mw is the weight-average molecular weight, and [η] is the intrinsic viscosity. Data for statistical radii ‹S2›1/2, sedimentation coefficients SO, and [η] in THF were analyzed in terms of the wormlike chain model. First, the three parameters q, ML, and d characterizing the wormlike cylinder were estimated by using a recent theory of SO by Yamakawa and Fujii and assuming that the hydrodynamic volume per gram is equal to the partial specific volume of the polymer. Here q is the persistence length, ML is the shift factor defined as the molar weight per contour length, and d is the diameter of the cylinder. The results were q=18 A, ML=26 daltons/A, and d=6.6 A. It was then shown that these molecular parameters and small expansion factors for the excluded volume allowed a consistent interpretation of the experimental data for SO, ‹S2›, and [η]. The consistency between the intra- and inter-molecular excluded-volume effects were also examined by use of the perturbation theories for αs (expansion factor for ‹S2›) and for A2 of the wormlike beads. An important finding from the present study is that, while αs of the polycarbonate in THF is rather small, the binary cluster integral between a pair of monomers is quite large (about 170×10−24cm3).
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Tsuji, T., Norisuye, T. & Fujita, H. Dilute Solution of Bisphenol A Polycarbonate. Polym J 7, 558–569 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.7.558
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