Vol. 25, No. 1 (2026), Poly26662 https://doi.org/10.24275/rmiq/Poly26662

A model for describing experimental data from polymerization reactions of binary mixtures of monomers

 

Authors

E.Y. Calvillo-Muñoz, N.V. Likhanova, I.V. Lijanova, F. de J. Guevara-Rodríguez

Abstract

In the present work, three binary mixtures, derived from acrylamide (AM), vinylpyrrolidone (VP), and vinylbenzyl trimethylammonium chloride (VBTA), were synthesized to form ionic copolymers through the inverse microemulsion method. A mathematical model is proposed to describe the heat flow derived from thermoanalytical data of a binary polymerization reaction, utilizing the Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) technique. In the initial stage, the monomer conversion function model is proposed to describe the experimental data derived from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). Subsequently, in the second and final stage, a calorimetric model (based on the previously derived conversion function and the molar fraction of each component) is proposed to describe the heat flow data from polymerization reactions of binary mixtures of monomers.

Keywords

Calorimetry data, polymerization reaction, monomer conversion, heat flow.

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