Complexes of amic acids with polar aprotic solvents

The polymer-polymer interactions of a polyamic acid (PAA) with polybases (polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyacrylonitrile and polyvinylpyridine) were studied by means of massspectrometric thermal analysis (MTA), TG, DTA and IR-spectroscopic methods in solution and in the solid state. The polybases were shown to substitute the solvent from its complex with PAA, forming H-bonds or salt-type polycomplexes with PAA. The MTA method proved to be very informative for the investigation of interpolymer interactions in the solid state.