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Problem 1 ) Incipient miscibility in polymer - solvent systems From the general form of Flory - Huggins ( F H ) equation, we can

Problem 1) Incipient miscibility in polymer-solvent systems
From the general form of Flory-Huggins (FH) equation, we can express the activity of the solvent (a1) in a solvent(1)-polymer(2) mixture by
lna1=ln(1-2)+(1-r-1)2+22
where 2 is the volume fraction of the polymer, is the energy/interaction parameter (depends here only on T), and r is the polymer segment number. The requirement for incipient miscibility
(i.e. the critical point of the solution) is that
dellna1del1=del2lna1del12=0
1a) Demonstrate from (1-1) and (1-2) that the volume fraction of the of polymer at the critical
point is given by
2c=11+r12
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