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Mechanical relaxation spectroscopy of three triepoxide-based polymers

โœ Scribed by D. A. Wasylyshyn; G. P. Johari


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
257 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
0887-6266

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โœฆ Synopsis


Three network structure polymers formed by the chemical reactions of a triepoxide with aniline, 3-chloroaniline,and 4-chloroaniline were prepared and their shear modulus relaxation spectra studied over the 10 ฯช3 -to 1-Hz range and temperatures up to their rubber modulus region. The decrease in the unrelaxed modulus with increase in temperature is found to be a reflection of both an increase in volume, and a decrease in the relaxed modulus of the sub-T g relaxations process. It is quantitatively shown that the increase in the rubber modulus with increase in temperature above T g is predominantly due to an increase in the entropy and not to a decrease in the number of cross-links density on thermal expansion. The unrelaxed modulus remained unaffected by the change in the overall size of the phenyl groups of the amines and of the steric hindrance to their rotations caused by the proximity of the chlorine atom to the cross-linking N-atom in the network structure, but the rubber modulus was effected. The shear modulus spectra could be fitted to a stretched exponential decay function with a temperature-independent stretch parameter of 0.25 for two polymers and 0.22 for one. The time-temperature superposition of the spectra did not yield a master curve, and a vertical displacement of the data also failed to produce it. This was more clearly demonstrated by the spectra of the mechanical loss tangent. After considering the various contributions to the shear modulus, it was concluded that deviations from the time-temperature superposition of the spectra are intrinsic to these polymers and arise from the change in the viscoelastic functions for segmental dynamics on change in the temperature such that the overall distribution of relaxation times remains unaffected. The mechanical loss tangent of the three polymers is found to be higher than that of polycarbonate at ambient temperature, implying a higher loss of mechanical energy before these polymers may fracture.


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