Abstract: | Glass transition temperatures have been determined for polystyrenes crosslinked with 1–10% divinylbenzene and swollen with toluene, chloroform, N,N-dimethylformamide, and tetrahydrofuran to as high as 0.7 weight fraction solvent. The Tg′s depend approximately on the weight fractions and the Tg′s of the components according to the empirical equation 1nTg = m1 1nTg1 + m2 1nTg2 of Pochan. The Tg′s of the networks swollen with toluene also fit approximately a quasithermodynamic equation of Karasz based on the Tg′s and the ΔCp′s at Tg of the components. |