Birefringence of amorphous polymers. 1. Dynamic measurement on polystyrene
Birefringence of amorphous polymers. 1. Dynamic measurement on polystyrene
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无定形聚合物的双折射。
DOI:
10.1021/ma00020a029
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发表时间:
1991
期刊:
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
K. Osaki
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文献类型:
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作者:
Tadashi Inoue;H. Okamoto;K. Osaki
An apparatus was developed to measure the dynamic complex modulus and the birefringence of polymeric films. Measurements were performed for a polystyrene film over the frequency range of 1-130 Hz and the temperature of 100-176 C. TJie complex strain-optical coefficient corresponding to the complex Young’s modulus changed sign at the high-frequency end of the glass-to-rubber transition region. The stress-optical law held valid only at relatively low frequencies corresponding to the rubbery plateau zone. In a preliminary analysis with the method of the reduced variables, the Young’s modulus and the strain-optical coefficient exhibited different temperature dependences from each other. The relaxation spectrum calculated from the composite master curve presenting the birefringence was composed of a negative box-type section at short times and a positive wedge-type section at long times. The shape of the relaxation spectrum in each region was very similar to that for the mechanical relaxation spectrum except around the time where it changed sign. The data were analyzed with a modified stress-optical rule with regards to the relaxation spectrum: the mechanical relaxation spectrum is assumed to be a sum of two components, and the stress-optical rule holds valid for each component butwith different stress-optical coefficients. One component of the spectrum, located at short relaxation times, varied more strongly with temperature than the other at longer times. The shift factor, ot, for the latter was proportional to the viscosity. This component could be represented by a bead-spring segment model, with each segment composed of about 10 monomer units.