ISSN:
0098-1273
Keywords:
Physics
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The relaxation following a change in temperature of amorphous polymers near the glass transition has been calculated. The calculation uses a chain model consisting of cis and trans backbone rotational states. The relaxation is assumed to proceed by localized conformational changes whose rates are controlled by the fractional free volume in small enough regions of the polymer that thermal fluctuations need to be considered. The relaxation is treated as a stochastic process, and an approximate solution is obtained for a finite set of relaxation environments. Using what is believed to be the most plausible set of parameters for polystyrene, relaxation curves are computed for the internal energy that are very similar to the curves obtained by Kovacs and others for the volumetric relaxation of poly(vinyl acetate) and polystyrene.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1979.180170404
