Abstract
The surface and interfacial properties of polymers are important for their applications. In one of our previous articles, we discussed the relationship between the dispersive surface tension component and the density and molecular weight of solvents and polymers to seek a simple and easy method to estimate the rationality of surface tension results of polymers. We found that for 30 organic solvents and 12 polymers, there was a good relationship between the dispersive surface tension and the experiential parameter 1/ρ2 M 0.2 w . In this article, the existence of the squared density term is simply deduced from the general molecular interaction energy equation and is proved with four pairs of polymer/monomer; these are polystyrene/styrene, polyisoprene/isoprene, polymethyl methacrylate/methyl methacrylate, and polyvinyl acetate/vinyl acetate.
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