Poly -ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene- -ECTFE- offers unique chemical resistance, high temperature resistance, excellent mechanical properties and durability. However, it is not feasible to prepare ECTFE membranes via conventional membrane preparation methods, as ECTFE can only be dissolved at high temperatures -over 100 °C- in a few solvents. Therefore, a thermally induced phase separation -TIPS- method is a promising process for preparing ECTFE membranes. However, relatively few studies have focused on ECTFE/diluent miscibility to find a suitable solvent to prepare membrane using TIPS method. In this study, we tried to investigate the miscibility of ECTFE using molecular dynamics -MD- simulation. Gromacs 4.6.2 was used to carry out MD simulations.

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