ISSN:
0098-1273
Keywords:
Physics
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
Dynamic viscoelastic measurements, E′ and E″, were carried out on solution-crystallized and melt-crystallized samples of fractionated isotactic polypropylene over the temperature range of -100°C to 150°C. The molecular weight ranged from 1.26 × 104 to 1.77 × 105. The effects of swelling and annealing on the α and β peaks were more pronounced for the lower molecular weight fraction than for the higher one. It was found that both the untreated solution-crystallized and quenched melt-crystallized samples contain a fair amounts of a constrained amorphous phase in which the molecular motions were so depressed that the corresponding peak could be observed as the low-temperature component of the α peak. These constraints on the molecular motions are considered to originate from the spatial restrictions imposed by the presence of the surrounding crystallities.
Additional Material:
10 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1976.180140707
