Consider the following two polymeric systems: A. Poly(styrene-butadiene) amorphous copolymer having a number-average molecular weight of...
8.a) A random poly(styrene-butadiene) copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 467,500 g/mol and a weight-average degree of polymerization of 5500. Calculate the fraction of styrene (C:Hg) and butadiene (C4H6) mers in this copolymer. Atomic weights: C-12, H-1 b) What weight % sulphur must be added to vulcanize polyisoprene (mer weight = 68) by crosslinking one half the possible sites. In this elastomer, each pair of mers has two possible crosslink sites. Assume three sulphur atoms are involved in each...
3 8.a) A random poly(styrene-butadiene) copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of 467,500 g/mol and a weight-average degree of polymerization of 5500. Calculate the fraction of styrene (CsHg) and butadiene (C4H6) mers in this copolymer. Atomic weights: C-12, H-1 b) What weight % sulphur must be added to vulcanize polyisoprene (mer weight = 68) by crosslinking one half the possible sites. In this elastomer, each pair of mers has two possible crosslink sites. Assume three sulphur atoms are involved in...
The number-average molecular weight of a poly(styrene-butadlene) alternating copolymer Is 1352000 g/mol. For each molecule of this copolymer determine the average number of repeat units of styrene butadiene Atomic weights for several elements are included in the following table: Carbon 12.01 g/mol Chlorine 35.45 g/mol Fluorine 19.00 g/mol Hydrogen 1.008 g/mol Oxygen 16.00 g/mol Nitrogen 14.01 g/mol styrene repeat units butadiene repeat units
An alternating poly(ethylene-styrene) copolymer has a molecular weight of 97,917 g/mol. How many styrene repeat units are in one average chain of this polymer.
Calculate the number-average molecular weight of a random nitrile rubber [poly(acrylonitrile-butadiene) copolymer] in which the fraction of butadiene repeat units is 0.32; assume that this concentration corresponds to a degree of polymerization of 2030. Calculate the molecular weight of the acrylonitrile repeat unit in g/mol. Part 2 Calculate the molecular weight of the butadiene repeat unit in g/mol. Part 3 Calculate the average molecular weight of the copolymer repeat unit in g/mol. Click here to access Table 4.5. m =...
Chapter 15, Practice Problem 15.17 The tensile strength and number-average molecular weight for two poly(methyl methacrylate) materials are as follows: Tensile Strength (MPa) Number-Average Molecular Weight (g/mol) 52 30,000 130 50,000 Estimate the tensile strength at a number-average molecular weight of 37,000 g/mol. 247 MPa the tolerance is +/-3% Click if you would like to Show Work for this question: Open Show Work