ISSN:
0449-2978
Keywords:
Physics
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Creep compliance data, J(t), at 35°C for poly(β-hydroxyethyl monomethacrylate), crosslinked by ethylene glycol dimethacrylate in a range of concentration C from 0.0855 to 2.053 × 10-4 mole/cm3 and swollen to various degrees in diluents, were examined for time-concentration superposition. From the dependence of time scale shift factors on v2, the volume fraction of polymer, free volume parameters were calculated for two samples with C = 0.0855 × 10-4 and 0.136 × 10-4 mole/cm3, swollen in the range of v2 from 0.134 to 0.591. Special attention was given to the magnitude of the shift factor on the log J(t) axis and its dependence on concentration, which was found to depend substantially on the crosslinking and the swelling degrees of the samples. This shift was approximately log v2 for lightly crosslinked samples, swollen to a small degree, measured in the neighborhood of the main transition. For higher degrees of crosslinking and/or swelling, the shift was much less and for the most highly crosslinked networks swollen to equilibrium it was even negative. The correction appears to be very sensitive to the strain of the effective chains and to the location on the time scale with respect to the transition and rubberlike zones of viscoelasic behavior. It was found that the parameters of the WLF equation calculated in our previous study from the time-temperature superposition of the creep curves in the rubber-glass transition are valid also for the rubberlike region.
Additional Material:
8 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1969.160071005
