The interaction between poly(ethylene oxide) or poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and cesium and tetraalkylammonium (tetramethyl to tetrabutyl ammonium) dodecylsulfate has been investigated by means of electrical conductivity measurements to determine the critical aggregation concentration (cac) of the surfactants in the presence of polymer. The cac values were compared to the values of the critical micel...

1. Introduction The formation of miscible mixtures of two chemically dissimilar polymers is in general unfavourable. For many materials a single phase is never formed, while for others, the miscible state is only obtained at low temperatures. The classic description of the interaction between two polymers is via the Flory-Huggins theory (for example see [l]) in which x, the interaction paramete...

tris(diethylamino)diallylaminophosphonium tetrafluoroborate (DAAP-BF4) and chloride (DAAP-Cl) with N-vinylpyrrolidone (VP) were developed. The reduction of silver ions into nanoparticles was achieved using NaBH4 as a reducing agent. UV-spectroscopy scanning electron microscopy techniques used to characterize the formation in copolymers. average particle size ranged from 10 20 nm, corresponding ...

The use as an embedding resin for ultrathin sectioning of a cross-linked triple copolymer of N-vinylpyrrolidone, acrylonitrile, and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate is described. The first of these components is miscible with water, in all proportions, and can be used as a dehydrating agent, or, alternatively, ethanol may be used in the standard way. Polymerization is carried out at 37 degrees C ...