Correlating molar masses of nitrocelluloses with their intrinsic viscosities measured using capillary electrophoresis
Elodie Alinat1, Nathalie Delaunay2, Xavier Archer3
1PSL Research University, Chimie ParisTech, Laboratory of Physicochemistry of Electrolytes, Colloids and Analytical Sciences (PECSA), 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France; Central Laboratory of Police Prefecture (LCPP), 39 bis rue de Dantzig, 75015 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7195, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France; Sorbonne Université, UPMC, Université Paris 6, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Specific viscosities for a set of six nitrocellulose (NC) standards comprising three different mass-average molar masses (between 20,000 and 300,000 g mol(-1)) of two different nitrogen contents (11.2 and 12.1%) were measured at 20 °C in tetrahydrofuran, using capillary electrophoresis instrumentation as a bench-top viscometer in frontal mode. Intrinsic viscosities were derived applying Huggins' and Kraemer's models, showing excellent convergence of both models at infinitely diluted polymer concentration. Good overall consistency was shown between viscosity data experimentally acquired by this new protocol and the mass-average molar masses provided by the manufacturers. This simple protocol should be of interest for a better understanding of the solvent interaction given by this complex polymer, and beyond this, for tailoring NC solutions devoted to film deposition, and for the determination of mass-average molar masses of unknown NC samples.
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