Summary
A variety of physical properties of several liquids and polymers can be quantitatively described by considering a crystalline arrangement of molecules or other volume elements bound by non-directional forces. In some cases we propose that the intermolecular forces in the liquid or solid under question are simply due to van der Waals interactions. In those cases we demonstrate that physical properties such as surface energy, cohesive strength, compressibility, thermal expansion, and work of vaporization can be calculated from atomic constants and related to one another by the proposed model. In the case of other liquids and polymers, intermolecular forces cannot be described in terms of van der Waals binding alone and other (directional) forces such as dipole-dipole binding must be included. It will be shown that a variety of the calculated properties favorably compare with experimental results.
This work was supported by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
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Cuthrell, R.E. (1971). Intermolecular Forces in Polymers and Liquids. In: Chompff, A.J., Newman, S. (eds) Polymer Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6210-5_7
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