Polymer, Vol.35, No.10, 2137-2140, 1994
Analysis of Polymer Heterogeneity by Sedimentation Transport .2. Carboxymethyl Cellulose in a Water Cadoxene Mixture
Sedimentation velocity data obtained for solutions of monosubstituted carboxymethyl cellulose samples with molecular weights from 1.2 x 10(5) to 3.8 x 10(5) in a water/cadoxene mixture were used to determine the heterogeneity parameters. Linear dependence has been established for the x-spectrum standard deviation of the distribution of macromolecules in the ultracentrifugal field, as a function of the sedimentation boundary shift. This result proved the applicability of the novel method for elimination of the diffusion and concentration effects by a more reliable and convenient method than other known methods. The parameter M(z)/M(w) for different polymer samples was determined to lie between values of 1.8 and 3.5.