Novel methods for efficient estimate of intrinsic viscosity

Abstract

Abstract Two novel procedures have been established to estimate the intrinsic viscosity and the Huggins constant accurately. It is shown that these numerical methods are superior to the existing models, namely the Huggins, Nagy–Kelven–Tudos, and Reilly–Van Der Hoff–Ziogas equations. This finding is attributed to the more even distribution of errors in the dependent variables of the present analyses. The viscometic data of a poly(vinyl chloride) sample in tetrahydrofuran are analyzed by the foregoing five approaches whose accuracies are compared in terms of their variances of estimates.