Association in Solution and Adsorption at an Air−Water Interface of Alternating Copolymers of Maleic Anhydride and Styrene
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The behavior of alternating poly(styrene−maleic anhydride) (SMA) in aqueous solution and at the air−water interface was studied by static and dynamic light scattering, by surface tension measurements, and by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The variables of interest were the polymer concentration, the molecular weight, and the degree of ionization varied with pH. SMA polymers can associate in aqueous solution. The critical size of SMA in solution ranges from the predicted Gaussian radius of gyration ( r g ) up to 150 nm. The size of the associates increases with decreasing molecular weight. A maximum in associate size was measured at pH = 6.5, which corresponds to the polymer salt under its monosodium form. A mechanism by which SMA molecules zip together forming a macrocoil made of two molecules in cross section was proposed. SMA molecules also adsorb at the air−water interface, very likely as 2D-coils. An equilibrium links the concentration of SMA in solution and at the air−water interface.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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