화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol.55, No.11, 5340-5346, 2010
Prediction of Prop-2-enoate Polymer and Styrene Polymer Glass Transition Using Artificial Neural Networks
In this article, the molecular average polarizability a, the energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital ammo, the total thermal energy E(thermal), and the total entropy S were used to correlate with the glass transition temperature T(g) for 113 polymers. The quantum chemical descriptors obtained directly from polymer monomers can represent the essential factors that are governing the nature of glass transition in polymers. Stepwise multiple linear regression (MLR) analysis and the back-propagation artificial neural network (ANN) were used to generate the model. The final optimum neural network with 4-[4-4-1](3)-1 structure produced a training set root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 11 K (R = 0.973) and a validation set RMSE of 17 K (R = 0.955). The results show that the ANN model obtained in this paper is accurate in the prediction of T(g) values for polymers.