Further comments on the relation between hydraulic permeation and diffusion

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We feel that the lengthy comments given here come down to a few simple points. For uniform, homogeneous swollen membranes the internal driving force for transport in hydraulic permeation experiments is a concentration gradient not a pressure gradient. Equation (1) is in error because it neglects the frame of reference term 1/(1 − ν1). Equation (19) shows properly the connection between K0 and the various diffusion coefficients. In the particular case discussed here and previously we see no evidence to say that a viscous flow mechanism is operative since we can explain all of the K0 data in terms of reasonable diffusion coefficients if proper consideration is given to the frame of reference correction. This is not to say that in many other cases a viscous flow mechanism will not be present or even predominate.

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