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Sorption of Water Vapour by N-Vinyl Caprolactam Oligomers

I. N. Ruban, O. E. Sidorenko, V. O. Kudyshkin, N. I. Bozorov, M. Yu. Yunusov, N. L. Voropaeva, G. Kogan, and S. Sh. Rashidova

Institute of Polymer Chemistry and Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbekistan Republic, 700128 Tashkent, Uzbekistan

E-mail: polymer@rol.uz

Received: 30 May 2005

Abstract: Water vapour sorption by vinyl caprolactam polymer samples with the molar masses in the range of 2.6—25 × 10³ g mol⁻¹ was investigated. Influence of the degree of polymerization on sorption was discovered for the oligomers. This dependence was not observed for the high-molar-mass polymers. The possible causes of this phenomenon are discussed.

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Chemical Papers 59 (5) 294–297 (2005)