The Effect of Film Thickness and TiO₂ Content on Film Formation from PS/TiO₂ Nanocomposites Prepared by Dip-Coating Method

Table 1

Experimentally produced activation energies for thick and thin films for varying numbers of TiO₂ layers.

	Thick films (20 μm)			Thin films (5 μm)
TiO2 layer	Δ𝐻𝑃; (kcal⋅mol^−1)	Δ𝐻tr; (kcal⋅mol^−1)	Δ𝐸; (kcal.mol^−1)	Δ𝐻𝑃; (kcal⋅mol^−1)	Δ𝐻tr; (kcal⋅mol^−1)	Δ𝐸; (kcal⋅mol^−1)
5	1.24	1.88	23.14	1.20	—	46.14
8	0.51	1.70	27.92	0.31	—	9.35
10	0.30	1.32	12.74	1.60	—	47.54
12	1.68	0.80	31.71	2.51	—	12.94
13	0.90	0.66	23.63	0.91	—	34.6
15	2.38	4.30	9.93	1.35	—	9.90
Average	1.17	1.78	21.51	1.31	—	26.74