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Course, academic year 2022/2023
  
Physical Chemistry of Polymers - AM112002
Title: Physical Chemistry of Polymers
Guaranteed by: Department of Polymers (112)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2019 to 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:5
E-Credits: winter s.:5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Brožek Jiří prof. Ing. CSc.
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation
Molar mass distributions of polymers, polymer conformation, thermodynamics of polymer solutions and blends, theoretical basics of methods used in determination of polymer molar mass and polymer-solvent interactions, polymerization kinetics.
Last update: Rossner Christian (14.08.2025)
Course completion requirements

In order to complete the subject the student has to pass a written examination test with a result better than 50%.

Last update: Rossner Christian (09.09.2024)
Literature

D: M. Chanda: Introduction to Polymer Science and Chemistry, CRC Press 2006; ISBN 978-0-8493-7384-8

D: L.H. Sperling: Introduction to Physical Polymer Science, John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2006; ISBN 978-0-471-70606-9

D: D: S. Koltzenburg, M. Maskos, O. Nuyken: Polymer Chemistry, Springer, 2017; ISBN 978-3-662-49277-2

Last update: Brožek Jiří (27.06.2024)
Syllabus

1. Molar mass averages, distribution of molar mass.

2. Molar mass distribution functions, the most probable and other distribution functions.

3. Polymer chain dimensions, end-to-end distance, radius of gyration.

4. Thermodynamics of polymer solutions, entropy, enthalpy and Gibbs energy of mixing.

5. Solubility parameters, phase diagram polymer-solvent and polymer-solvent-nonsolvent.

6. Principles of Scattering and static light scattering from polymer solutions.

7. Small-angle X-ray scattering, small-angle neutron scattering, dynamic light scattering.

8. Viscosity of polymer solutions, Einsten equation, determination of limiting viscosity number.

9. Mark-Houwink equation, viscometry methods.

10. Colligative properties in determination of molar mass.

11. Size exclusion chromatography, calibration, concentration and molar mass detectors.

12. Polymerization kinetics.

Last update: Rossner Christian (14.08.2025)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1.5 42
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 2 56
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.5 42
5 / 5 140 / 140
 
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