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Abstract

Commercial samples of ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers (EPDM) and their fractions were characterized by osmometry (number-average molecular weight, second virial coefficient), viscometry (intrisic viscosity) and ¹H NMR spectrometry (mole fraction of propylene monomeric units). The results were analyzed in terms of the two-parameter theory of polymer solutions. Theta temperatures and polymer-solvent interaction parameters were estimated and correlated with composition. Existence of organized structures is indicated by high values of the reduced partial molar entropy parameter y. The increase in y with increasing content of ethylene units is assigned to their association. The results lend support to the previous study on the Huggins viscosity coefficient of EPDM.