Modeling Non-Fickian Sorption of a Solvent in Immiscible Polymers

EasyChair Preprint no. 2441

Abstract

We formulate a mesoscopic model to investigate the behavior of a solvent mass transport into an immiscible polymeric blend embedding a complex deformable interface. Under unsteady isothermal conditions, we discuss the diffusion-induced mechanical changes occurring in the blend internal micro-structure and its effect on mass transport which may consequently exhibit a non-Fickian character. Nice agreement was found between the theoretical predictions and experimental data (taken from literature) for the sorption of toluene through polypropylene (PP)/ Acrylonitrile-co-butadiene Rubber (NBR).

Keyphrases: interface-conformation, Non-Fickian diffusion, sorption, swelling

@Booklet{EasyChair:2441,
  author = {Youssef Hairch and Ali El Afif},
  title = {Modeling Non-Fickian Sorption of a Solvent in Immiscible Polymers},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 2441},

  year = {EasyChair, 2020}}