Phenomenological relationship between dielectric relaxation and thermodynamic recovery processes near the glass transition
Phenomenological relationship between dielectric relaxation and thermodynamic recovery processes near the glass transition
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介电弛豫与玻璃化转变附近的热力学恢复过程之间的唯象关系
DOI:
10.1021/ma00154a048
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发表时间:
1985
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
T. Furukawa
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作者:
S. Matsuoka;G. Williams;G. Johnson;E. Anderson;T. Furukawa
Applying the experimental dielectric relaxation spectrum of amorphous poly (vinyl acetate) in the form of Dirac 5’s over 6 decades of time to the basic nonlinear differential equation for the thermodynamic recovery process accurately reproduced volume relaxation data. Experimental dielectric relaxation time follows the Vogel-Fulcher (or WLF) equation, as is well-known. The thermodynamic recovery time from volume data5 was found to be precisely equal to the dielectric relaxation time near Tg but at lower temperatures to diverge from the extrapolation of the dielectric data. The recovery time will depend on the Active temperature following the same Vogel formula rather than Narayanaswamy’s formula, but its temperaturedependence follows the Arrhenius formula. The shift ofthe relaxation timewith aging was calculated from the equations thus evaluated and was shown to agree with viscoelastic and dielectric data, clearly showing that thisrelaxation time should not be confused with the “effective” r obtained from the overall rate of thermodynamic recovery. These phenomena are common to polymers and nonpolymers, since both poly (vinyl acetate) and glucose were found to exhibit all of the physical properties that are essential to the behavior studied.The physics of slow relaxation processes in glass-forming liquids continue to interest many workers. Substantial progress has been made on the phenomenological understanding of the thermodynamic recovery process due no-tably to thework of Moynihan andco-workers, 1-3 and Kovacs and co-workers, 4, 5 through the introduction of the distribution of relaxationtimes superimposed on the nonlinear dependence of relaxation time on the change of the structure. Their fundamental differential equations are essentially the same nonlinear equation with distrib-uted order parameters. Moynihan (M model) invoked the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts relaxationfunction, 6 while