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DIFFUSION IN POLYMERS

CHARLES M. HANSEN. DIFFUSION IN POLYMERS. OUTLINE. Laws of Diffusion Generalized Solutions to these Laws Concentration Dependent Coefficients Surface Condition can be significant Combine These - No Anomalies Predict Missing Data from Limited Results Control Solvent Retention.

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DIFFUSION IN POLYMERS

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  1. CHARLES M. HANSEN DIFFUSION IN POLYMERS

  2. OUTLINE • Laws of Diffusion • Generalized Solutions to these Laws • Concentration Dependent Coefficients • Surface Condition can be significant • Combine These - No Anomalies • Predict Missing Data from Limited Results • Control Solvent Retention

  3. FICK’S FIRST AND SECOND LAWS Law 1: F = - D0(c/x) For Steady State Flux in the x Direction, and Law 2:c/t = /x (D0c/x) This is also called the Diffusion Equation

  4. DIMENSIONLESS VARIABLES Dimensionless time: T = D0t/L2 (cm2/s)(s/cm2) Dimensionless distance: X = x/L Dimensionless concentration: C = (c – c0)/(c - c0)

  5. FOR STEADY STATE PERMEATION At low concentrations (≤1%) D(c) = D0 F = - D0(c1 – c2)/L For Concentration Dependent Diffusion - D(c) increases by a factor of 10 for each 3%v increase in concentration (See Below)

  6. MEASURING DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS Half-time (t½) equation for measuring D0 Corrections required for concentration dependence (M) and surface resistance (B) D0 = 0.049 L2/t½

  7. CORRECTIONS FOR CONCENTRATION DEPENDENCE ALONE Note huge corrections for desorption Desorption Absorption Dmax (Fd)1/2 (Fd)1/4 (Fa)1/2 1 1.00 1.00 1.00 2 1.56 1.55 1.30 5 2.70 2.61 1.70 101 4.00 3.84 2.01 102 13.40 10.20 3.30 103 43.30 23.10 4.85 104 138.7 47.40 6.14 105 443.0 89.0 7.63 106 1,370.0 160.5 8.97 107 4,300.0 290.0 10.60 108 13,670.0 506.0 12.10

  8. SURFACE CONDITION Fs = -DsCs/x = h(Ceq – Cs) • External Flux at surface, Fs, equals mass transfer coefficient (cm/s) times concentration difference, g/cc giving g/cm2s In dimensionless terms the ratio of diffusion resistance to surface resistance is given by B Corrections best by curve fitting (See Below). B = Rd/Rs = (L/D0)/(1/h) = hL/D0

  9. CORRECTIONS FOR SURFACE RESISTANCE FOR D0 = CONST.B = hL/D = Rd/Rs B 1/B FB  0 1.0 10 0.1 1.45 2 0.5 3.14 1 1 4.95 0.5 2 6.8 0.1 10 37.5

  10. PERMEATION WITH SURFACE AND/OR EXTERNAL RESISTANCES F = p/(L/Papp) = p/(L/P + R1 + R2 + R3 …) L/Papp = L/P + R1 + R2 + R3 …. 1/Papp = 1/P + (R1 + R2 + R3 ….)/L Use Plot of 1/P Versus 1/L

  11. TRUE PERMEATION COEFFICIENT (P∞) BY EXTRAPOLATION (ACRYLIC FILMS)

  12. DIFFUSION SIDE EFFECTS • Film: Thickness (L), length (l), width (w) D0 = Dapp /(1 + L/l + L/w)2 • Circular Film: Thickness (b), Radius (R) D0 = Dapp/(1 + b/R)2 • For L = 1mm and w = 10mm: Dapp/D0 = 1.21 • Tensile bars (L = 2-4mm, w=10mm): Do not use!

  13. UNIQUE DATA USED IN FOLLOWING • The system chlorobenzene in poly(vinyl acetate) has been studied extensively with all relevant data reported in my thesis and subsequent journal articles. See the next slides. Absorption data from one equilibrium to another, desorption data from different equilibria to vacuum, and film drying (years) all present a unified and coherent picture of solvent diffusion in polymers, if one accounts for concentration dependence and significant surface effects when present.

  14. D(c) FOR CHLOROBENZENE IN PVAc FOR ALL CONCENTRATIONS (HANSEN, 1967)

  15. DROP IN CURVE ABOVE 0.2 Vf • When apparent diffusion coefficients are measured by absorption above a break point, the surface condition becomes progressively more important and the apparent diffusion coefficients become lower and lower. Proper interpretation allows these to be corrected to values expected from other measurements. Initial S-curvature indicates surface resistance is important. The consequences are shown in the following slides.

  16. DESORPTION AND ABSORPTION GIVE SAME D(c) WITH CORRECTION (HANSEN 1967, 2004)

  17. ABSORPTION WITH CORRECTIONS (Fa) REQUIRED FOR D(c) AND FB FOR Rs

  18. ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF SURFACE RESISTANCE – COC POLYMER (NIELSEN, HANSEN 2005)

  19. S-SHAPED CURVES CAUSED BY SURFACE RESISTANCE (NIELSEN, HANSEN 2005)

  20. ABSORPTION – CASE II AND SUPER CASE II CAUSED BY COMBINED ( Hansen, 1980)Rd and Rs for D = D0ekc

  21. CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS COMBINED Rd AND Rs FOR D = D0ekc ( Hansen, 1980)

  22. DRYING OF A LACQUER FILM (Hansen, 1967, 1968)

  23. RELATIVE SOLVENT RETENTION (HANSEN, 1967) MOLECULAR SIZE AND SHAPE

  24. Effect of Molecular Properties on D0 Compare Methanol with Iodine

  25. GENERAL ARTICLE APPEARS EXPLAINING “ANOMALIES” USING DIFFUSION EQUATION • Much of the above has been presented in Chapter 16 of Second Edition of Hansen Solubility Parameters: A User’s Handbook, CRC Press, 2007. The following article: Hansen CM. The significance of the surface condition in solutions to the diffusion equation: explaining "anomalous" sigmoidal, Case II, and Super Case II absorption behavior. Eur Polym J 2010;46;651-662 contains the next slides.

  26. SIGNIFICANT SURFACE CONDITION FOR ABSORPTION OF WATER INTO PVALC FROM BONE DRY TO 0.748 VOLUME FRACTION

  27. CASE II ABSORPTION WITH LINEAR UPTAKE WITH LINEAR TIME. THE SURFACE CONCENTRATION INCREASES SLOWLY

  28. SUPER CASE II WITH SLOWLY INCREASING RATE OF ABSORPTION WITH TIME. CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS SHOW A FRONT.

  29. HANSEN IS “EXTRANEOUS”: PETROPOULOS et.al • Petropoulos JH Sanopoulou M Papadokostaki KG. Physically insightful modeling of non-Fickian kinetic energy regimes encountered in fundamental studies of isothermal sorption of swelling agents in polymeric media. Eur Polym J 2011;47:2053-2062. • Hansen extraneous, challenges included

  30. Hansen cannot explain these data!Next two slides do explain these data

  31. CALCULATED ABSORPTION CURVE AND GRADIENTS MATCH EXPERIMENTAL DATA FOR ABSORPTION PERPENDICULAR TO STRETCH DIRECTION: METHYLENE CHLORIDE IN CELLULOSE ACETATE.

  32. CALCULATED ABSORPTION CURVE IS PERFECT, FRONT NOT A SHARP STEP, BUT CLOSE TO EXPERIMENTAL. METHYLENE CHLORIDE IN STRETCHED CELLULOSE ACETATE STRETCH DIRECTION. ARE INITIAL CONDITIONS MAINTAINED?

  33. Thomas and Windle Case II ExampleMethanol/PMMA with Iodine Tracer Straight line absorption with linear time cited as excellent example of Case II behavior. This result is duplicated: Diffusion equation with significant surface effect and exponential D(c)

  34. Thomas and Windle Case II ExampleWindle, “Case II Sorption” in Comyn, Polymer Permeability (1985) Iodine tracer lags methanol in PMMA at 30°C showing apparent step-like gradient. Methanol does not have this “advancing sharp front”. Iodine tracer far too slow as shown in the next slide. Methanol gradients become flat at longer time.

  35. Methanol/PMMA Absorption at 30ºCCalculated Concentration Gradients Flat at 13 hours

  36. Super Case II: n-Hexane/Polystyrene Hopfenberg and Coworkers

  37. Hopfenberg and Coworkers Super Case II Correctly Modeled Absorption, D0, and h.

  38. CONCLUSION: STRESS RELAXATION NEED NOT BE INVOKED. Stress relaxation phenomena need not be invoked to explain the cases examined including Thomas and Windle Case II, Super Case II, and Sigmoidal examples or the studies of Petropoulos and coworkers. The diffusion equation seems to fully describe all of these studies when the a significant surface condition is included and exponential diffusion coefficients are used.

  39. DIFFUSION IN POLYMERS SUMMARY • Laws of Diffusion • Generalized Solutions to these Laws • Concentration Dependent Coefficients • Surface Condition involved with ”Anomalies” • Combine These - No Anomalies • Predict Missing Data from Limited Results • Estimate Behavior at Different Conditions • Improved understanding

  40. Thank you for your attention! For further contact please visit: www.hansen-solubility.com

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