The composition‐dependent glass transition: Relations between temperature pressure, and composition

Abstract

AbstractA new predictive relation between pressure and temperature changes on the glass‐transition boundary is derived for random solutions. The isobaric version of this relation is integrated to recover a previous theory for the compositional variation of glass‐transition temperatures. The isothermal form of the differential equation gives an equation for the compositional variation of glass‐transition pressures. An enthalpic definition of the transition boundary provides a relation between excess enthalpies of mixing for the glassy and liquid states for the isobaric and isothermal transitions. Similarly, a definition of the boundary in terms of the solution volume provides a relation between excess volumes of mixing for these two states for the isobaric and isothermal transitions. The primary entropic equation for the composition‐dependent isobaric transition gives two hierarchies of approximation, one of which is shown to be preferred for physical reasons. A parallel situation arises for the isothermal transition.