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Structure Property Relationship in Polymer

1. Solubility depends on polymer structure, increasing with short branches and decreasing with long branches or crosslinking. 2. Glass transition temperature (Tg) is the temperature at which a polymer transitions from hard to soft. Tg decreases with increased chain flexibility, large bulky side groups, and plasticizers, but increases with crosslinking. 3. Thermal stability depends on polymer structure, with aromatics and fluorine providing more stability at high temperatures than aliphatics or chlorine. Tensile strength follows the order: branched < linear < crosslinked.

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Structure Property Relationship in Polymer

1. Solubility depends on polymer structure, increasing with short branches and decreasing with long branches or crosslinking. 2. Glass transition temperature (Tg) is the temperature at which a polymer transitions from hard to soft. Tg decreases with increased chain flexibility, large bulky side groups, and plasticizers, but increases with crosslinking. 3. Thermal stability depends on polymer structure, with aromatics and fluorine providing more stability at high temperatures than aliphatics or chlorine. Tensile strength follows the order: branched < linear < crosslinked.

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Structure Property

Relationship of Polymer
1.
Solubility
• Solubility is the ability of a polymer to dissolve in a solvent.
• Solubility change with change in polymer structure.
– Increases with short branch
– Decreases with long branch
– Decreases with crosslinking

Crosslinked polymer
2. Glass Transition Temperature
(Tg)
• The temperature at which a polymer transitions from a hard,
glassy material to a soft, rubbery material.
Tg decreases with Chain
Flexibility
• Tg depends on the ability of a chain to undergo internal
rotations.
• Higher the freedom of rotation, the more flexible are the
chains.
• Linear polymers with single bonds have high degree of
rotation.
• The presence of aromatics, cyclic structures in backbone
hinder this rotation.
Tg decreases with big bulky side
groups
• Big bulky side groups can lower the Tg
• The big side groups limit how closely the polymer chains can
pack together. The further they are from each other, the more
easily they can move around.
• We can see this with a series of methacrylate polymers
Tg increase with Cross-
linking
• cross-linking increases Tg since
• The presence of covalent bonding between chains reduces
molecular freedom
Tg = -93 °C

Tg= 50 °C
Tg decreases with
Plasticizer
• Plasticizers are small molecules which occupy position
between polymer chains
• To increase flexibility, elongation and to reduce
hardness
3. Thermal stability
• Thermal stability is the stability of a polymer at high temperatures.
• Aromatic cyclic chains are more stable than aliphatic
carbon chains at elevated temperatures.
• Polyvinyl fluoride and PVDF are more stable to elevated temperatures than the
corresponding chloride polymers. polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is highly stable.

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• Presence of an oxygen or a sulfur atom in the backbones such as polyphenylene oxide (PPO),
polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), and polyphenylene sulfone are highly stable at elevated temperatures.
4. Tensile
strength
• The tensile strength of a polymer quantifies how much stress
the polymer will endure before failing.
• Tensile strength changes with change in polymer structure.
• Branched< Linear< Crosslinked
Reference
s
• Raymond B. Seymour & Charles E. Carraher, Jr; Structure-
Property Relationships in Polymers
• http://www.socoolglasses.com/definition-of-glass-transition-
temperature/
• http://pslc.ws/macrog/tg.htm
• http://chemistry.tutorvista.com/analyticalchemistry/homopol
ymer.html

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