Abstract
With the aid of thermodynamics of Gibbs, the expression of the spinodal was derived for the polydisperse polymer-solvent system in the framework of Sanchez–Lacombe Lattice Fluid Theory (SLLFT). For convenience, we considered that a model polydisperse polymer contains three sub-components. According to our calculation, the spinodal depends on both weight-average (M̄w) and number-average (M̄n) molecular weights of the polydisperse polymer, but the z-average molecular weight (M̄z) dependence on the spinodal is invisible. The dependence of free volume on composition, temperature, molecular weight, and its distribution results in the effect of M̄n on the spinodal. Moreover, it has been found that the effect of changing M̄w on the spinodal is much bigger than that of changing M̄n and the extrema of the spinodal increases with the rise of the weight-average molecular weight of the polymer in the solutions with upper critical solution temperature (UCST). However, the effect of polydispersity on the spinodal can be neglected for the polymer with a considerably high weight-average molecular weight. A more simple expression of the spinodal for the polydisperse polymer solution in the framework of SLLFT was also derived under the assumption of υ*=υ1*=υ2* and (1/r10)−(1/r2i0)→(1/r10).
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