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Artificial Neural Network Modeling of Glass Transition Temperatures for Some Homopolymers with Saturated Carbon Chain Backbone.

ABSTRACT: The glass transition temperature (Tg) is an important decision parameter when synthesizing polymeric compounds or when selecting their applicability domain. In this work, the glass transition temperature of more than 100 homopolymers with saturated backbones was predicted using a neuro-evolutive technique combining Artificial Neural Networks with a modified Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm. In most cases, the selected polymers have a vinyl-type backbone substituted with various groups. A few samples with an oxygen atom in a linear non-vinyl hydrocarbon main chain were also considered. Eight structural, thermophysical, and entanglement properties estimated by the quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) method, along with other molecular descriptors reflecting polymer composition, were considered as input data for Artificial Neural Networks. The Tg's neural model has a 7.30% average absolute error for the training data and 12.89% for the testing one. From the sensitivity analysis, it was found that cohesive energy, from all independent parameters, has the highest influence on the modeled output.

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