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- By Tod C. Aeby, Melanie D. Altizer, Ronan A. Bakker, Meghann E. Batten, Anita K. Blanchard, Brian Bond, Megan A. Brady, Saweda A. Bright, Ellen L. Brock, Amy Brown, Ashley Carroll, Jori S. Carter, Frances Casey, Weldon Chafe, David Chelmow, Jessica M. Ciaburri, Stephen A. Cohen, Adrianne M. Colton, PonJola Coney, Jennifer A. Cross, Julie Zemaitis DeCesare, Layson L. Denney, Megan L. Evans, Nicole S. Fanning, Tanaz R. Ferzandi, Katie P. Friday, Nancy D. Gaba, Rajiv B. Gala, Andrew Galffy, Adrienne L. Gentry, Edward J. Gill, Philippe Girerd, Meredith Gray, Amy Hempel, Audra Jolyn Hill, Chris J. Hong, Kathryn A. Houston, Patricia S. Huguelet, Warner K. Huh, Jordan Hylton, Christine R. Isaacs, Alison F. Jacoby, Isaiah M. Johnson, Nicole W. Karjane, Emily E. Landers, Susan M. Lanni, Eduardo Lara-Torre, Lee A. Learman, Nikola Alexander Letham, Rachel K. Love, Richard Scott Lucidi, Elisabeth McGaw, Kimberly Woods McMorrow, Christopher A. Manipula, Kirk J. Matthews, Michelle Meglin, Megan Metcalf, Sarah H. Milton, Gaby Moawad, Christopher Morosky, Lindsay H. Morrell, Elizabeth L. Munter, Erin L. Murata, Amanda B. Murchison, Nguyet A. Nguyen, Nan G. O’Connell, Tony Ogburn, K. Nathan Parthasarathy, Thomas C. Peng, Ashley Peterson, Sarah Peterson, John G. Pierce, Amber Price, Heidi J. Purcell, Ronald M. Ramus, Nicole Calloway Rankins, Fidelma B. Rigby, Amanda H. Ritter, Barbara L. Robinson, Danielle Roncari, Lisa Rubinsak, Jennifer Salcedo, Mary T. Sale, Peter F. Schnatz, John W. Seeds, Kathryn Shaia, Karen Shelton, Megan M. Shine, Haller J. Smith, Roger P. Smith, Nancy A. Sokkary, Reni A. Soon, Aparna Sridhar, Lilja Stefansson, Laurie S. Swaim, Chemen M. Tate, Hong-Thao Thieu, Meredith S. Thomas, L. Chesney Thompson, Tiffany Tonismae, Angela M. Tran, Breanna Walker, Alan G. Waxman, C. Nathan Webb, Valerie L. Williams, Sarah B. Wilson, Elizabeth M. Yoselevsky, Amy E. Young
- Edited by David Chelmow, Virginia Commonwealth University, Christine R. Isaacs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Ashley Carroll, Virginia Commonwealth University
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- Acute Care and Emergency Gynecology
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- 05 November 2014
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- 30 October 2014, pp ix-xiv
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Influence of Average Free Volume Element Size on the Transport of Gases Through Polymers With Equivalent Total Free Volumes
- Broderick R. Wilks, Won J. Chung, Peter J. Ludovice, Mary E. Rezac, Pavla Meakin, Anita J. Hill
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 752 / 2002
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- 11 February 2011, AA7.3
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- 2002
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The permeability coefficients of gases through glassy polymers have been correlated with the fractional free volume (FFV) of the polymers. In general, polymers with high fractional free volumes have high permeabilities while those with low FFV have low permeabilities. This observation is valid for many, but not all materials. This study evaluates the impact of the average size of a free volume element on the permeability of gases through the polymer.
Evaluation of the influence of average free volume element size is only possible by employing model systems in which the chemistry and the total free volume are essentially equivalent. In this study, two stereochemical forms of a methyl-substituted polynorbornene were employed. The isomers are chemically equivalent, with similar total free volumes (0.181 versus 0.188). The average defect size was probed using positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. The ortho-positronium lifetimes were measured and it was determined that the difference between the two isomers was approximately 10% with the lower-FFV isomer having the larger average lifetime. For simplicity, the two isomers will be termed Pd and Ni (in reference to the catalysts used in their preparation). The Pd isomer has a slightly lower FFV, but larger average defect size. The Ni isomer has a higher FFV, but smaller average defect size.
Transport evaluation indicates that the Pd-isomer has gas permeabilities two to three times those of the Ni-isomer. In depth analysis indicates that the increase in permeability is a result of an increase in both the diffusivity of gases through the polymer and gas solubility.