ISSN:
0098-1273
Keywords:
Physics
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Earlier work showed that heating causes poly(diethylsiloxane) to undergo a first-order transition from a semicrystalline solid to a more mobile viscous - crystalline material. The latter is composed of two phases and analogies between polymer and liquid crystal morphology and behavior have been made. The viscous - crystalline phase in PDES appears to be unique since the literature is devoid of other documented examples. In this study, spin - lattice and spin - spin relaxation times were measured over a wide temperature range. They show a glass transition at 138°K, a crystal - crystal transition at 206°K, and a transition around 250°K which results from translational motion of the polymer chains with respect to each other. This motion is observed in the amorphous phase at a lower temperature than in the crystalline phase. Translational motion in the crystalline phase is observed on melting of the crystallites. The spin - spin data permitted monitoring of the molecular motions in each phase and the data suggest that these phases exert some influence on the molecular motions of each other. The viscous - crystalline phase in PDES may represent a unique model for studying and understanding “precrystalline” behavior and structure in amorphous solids.
Additional Material:
2 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1975.180130701
