title: Physical re-examination of parameters on a molecular collisions-based diffusion model for diffusivity prediction in polymers.
abstract: Molecular collisions, which are the microscopic origin of molecular diffusive motion, are affected by both the molecular surface area and the distance between molecules. Their product can be regarded as the free space around a penetrant molecule defined as the "shell-like free volume" and can be taken as a characteristic of molecular collisions. On the basis of this notion, a new diffusion theory has been developed. The model can predict molecular diffusivity in polymeric systems using only well-defined single-component parameters of molecular volume, molecular surface area, free volume, and pre-exponential factors. By consideration of the physical description of the model, the actual body moved and which neighbor molecules are collided with are the volume and the surface area of the penetrant molecular core. In the present study, a semiempirical quantum chemical calculation was used to calculate both of these parameters. The model and the newly developed parameters offer fairly good predictive ability.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, R1-17, Yokohama-city, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan.
authors.forename: Hidenori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohashi
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamaki
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
mesh_terms: D004058:Diffusion; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D012997:Solvents