Mutual diffusion and phase equilibrium in copolymers of nonyl acrylate and acrylic acid-diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A systems

The influence of the composition of statistical copolymers of nonyl acrylate with acrylic acid on the rate of mass transfer and phase equilibrium in solutions with diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A was studied. For these systems, the data on concentration dependencies of mutual diffusion coefficients and phase diagrams were obtained. The results were interpreted on the basis of the assumption about the effect of the effective concentration of nodes of the network of hydrogen bonds on the mutual diffusion and phase equilibrium. The dependencies of the mutual diffusion coefficients on the content of acrylic acid in the copolymers are described in terms of the free volume theory. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 74: 2353–2356, 1999