. 2018 Aug 24;11(9):1529. doi: 10.3390/ma11091529

Table 1.

Characteristic dispersion solubility (δ_d), dipole solubility (δ_p) and hydrogen-bond solubility (δ_h) parameters, for all solvents and polymeric blocks.

Dispersion Parameters	δ_d (MPa^1/2) ^a	δ_p (MPa^1/2) ^a	δ_h (MPa^1/2) ^a	V (cm³/mol) ^b
Solvents
Toluene	18.0	1.4	2.0	106.8
Cyclohexane	16.8	0.0	0.2	108.7
Tetrahydrofuran (THF)	16.8	5.7	8.0	81.7
Polymeric blocks
Polystyrene (PS)	17.6	6.1	4.1	-
Polybutadiene (PB)	18.0	5.1	2.5	-
Poly(isoprene) (PI)	17.4	3.1	3.1	-
Poly(ethylene/propylene) (PEP)	16.7	0.0	5.2	-
Poly(ethylene) (PE)	18.1	0.0	0.0	-

^a,b All solubility parameters, as long as solvent volume were found in the literature, were calculated according to Hansen solubility parameters [51] and the van Krevelen method [64].