Dynamic mechanical spectrometry

On the other hand, water uptake is a continuous problem for polyimides and particularly for polynadimides [133]. Dynamic mechanical spectrometry (viscoelastic measurements) have been used to investigate the network degradations due to hydrolytic process [134]. It was shown on a special PMR resin (AFR 700 B) that network reformations are possible through post-curing. In addition, for fluorinated systems, 19F NMR can be used to follow the hydrolysis of the im-ide groups [135]. 

In addition to the bulk Tg, siower relaxation was assigned to polymer chains close to the polymer-filler interface, whose mobility was restricted by the physical interactions. The existence of an interfacial layer was proposed to explain the DSC results (showing a double step in heat capacity) and TSC/DDS measurements (distinguishing two well-defined dielectric relaxation processes). These results confirmed earlier studies by dynamic mechanical spectrometry, where a second tan 5 peak, observed at 50 to 100°C above the mechanical manifestation of Tg, was attributed to the glass transition of an interfacial polymer layer with restricted mobiUty [Tsagaropoulos and Eisenburg, 1995],... 

The influence of the vinyl content on the viscoelastic behaviour of polybutadienes is shown in Figure 4. Measurements of tan S, the phase angle between stress and strain under sinusoidal deformation, have been performed by Dynamic Mechanical Spectrometry (Rheometrics). Looking at the shift along the temperature axis due to the different vinyl content, a maximum vinyl content of 72% has been chosen, since beyond this limit the polymer can hardly be regarded as a rubber. 

In a similar fashion. Thermally Stimulated Current spectrometry (TSC) makes use of an appHed d-c potential that acts as the stress to orient dipoles. The temperature is then lowered to trap these dipoles, and small electrical currents are measured during heating as the dipoles relax. The resulting relaxation maps have been related to G and G" curves obtained by dynamic mechanical analysis (244—246). This technique, long carried out only in laboratory-built instmments, is available as a commercial TSC spectrometer from Thermold Partners L.P., formerly Solomat Instmments (247). 

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Other methods that have been used to determine include dynamic mechanical analysis [102,103, 108-110], dielectric thermal analysis [102], nickel magnetic resonance spectrometry [111-116], and inverse gas chromatography [117,118]. 

The methods discussed in this book are differential photocalorimetry, differential scanning calorimetry, dielectric thermal analysis, differential thermal analysis, dynamic mechanical analysis, evcrived gas analysis, gas chromatography, gas chromatography (oml)ined with mass spectrometry, mass spectrometry, microthermal analysis, thermal volalilisalion, Ihermogravimetric analysis and thermomechanical analysis. 

To determine the movements of the whole chain and those of subchains, various techniques are accessible and available to the experimenter, including dielectric spectroscopy and mechanical spectrometry. Dielectric techniques are suitable for the study of polymers in a wide range of frequencies (between 10 Hz and 10 ° Hz), while the mechanical dynamic characterization of polymers provides access to long relaxation times (>10 s) through creep and stress relaxation tests. 

Diffusion in solids does not ensure the experimentally observed velocity of combustion wave propagation in the systems which are traditionally considered as gasless and burned in the mode of solid flames (gasless solid-state combustion). The phenomenology of indirect interactions, the thermochemistp and dynamics of the gas-phase carriers formation, as well as their participation in the reactants transport are studied in the systems Mo-B and Ta-C. The distributions of the main species in the gas phase of the combustion wave are measured in situ with the use of a dynamic mass-spectrometry (DMS) technique which allows for high temporal and spatial resolution. The detailed chemical pathways of the processes were established. It was shown that the actual mechanism of combustion in the systems under study is neither solid state nor gasless and the reactions are fiilly accomplished in a narrow front. 

The objective of this study is to investigate the mechanism of propylene oxidation by a transient infrared spectroscopic technique over Rh/Al203. This technique allows simultaneous measurement of the dynamics of adsorbed species by in situ infrared spectroscopy and the product formation profile by mass spectrometry. 

The product we monitor is again the I atom using femtosecond-resolved mass spectrometry (the other product is the Bzl species). We also monitor the initial complex evolution. The initial femtosecond pulse prepares the system in the transition state of the harpoon region, that is, Bz+h. The iodine atom is liberated either by continuing on the harpoon PES and/or by electron transfer from iodine (I2-) to Bz+ and dissociation of neutral I2 to iodine atoms. We have studied the femtosecond dynamics of both channels (Fig. 17) by resolving their different kinetic energies and temporal behavior. The mechanism for the elementary steps of this century-old reaction is now clear. 

Thus as a starting point for understanding the bombardment process we have developed a classical dynamics procedure to model the motion of atomic nuclei. The predictions of the classical model for the observables can be compared to the data from sputtering, spectrometry (SIMS), fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FABMS), and plasma desorption mass spectrometry (PDMS) experiments. In the circumstances where there is favorable agreement between the results from the classical model and experimental data It can be concluded that collision cascades are Important. The classical model then can be used to look at the microscopic processes which are not accessible from experiments In order to give us further insight into the ejection mechanisms. 

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