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Intrinsic viscosities [η] were determined for five polystyrene samples ranging in molecular weight Mw from 9.0 × 104 to 1.2 × 106 in toluene-supercritical carbon dioxide mixtures with different weight fractions of CO2 (denoted as w(CO2)) at 40 °C in a pressure range P = 7.0–10.0 MPa using a rolling-ball viscometer. For every sample [η] was a gradually increasing function of P, indicating that the polystyrene coil expands with increasing P. At fixed P and w(CO2), the molecular weight dependence of [η] was expressed in the form [η] α Mwa. The exponent a remarkably changed with w(CO2) at constant P; for example, it decreased from 0.68 (a good solvent value) to 0.42 (a poor solvent value below the theta point where a = 0:5) with an increase in w(CO2) from 15 to 31% at P = 7.0 MPa. The solvent goodness was quantified in terms of the binarycluster integral determined by analyzing the [η] data according to the two-parameter theory.
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Onishi, M., Nakamura, Y. & Norisuye, T. Intrinsic Viscosity of Polystyrene in Toluene-Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Mixtures. Polym J 41, 477–481 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.PJ2008319
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